HANOI, Vietnam--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2026--
FPT AI Factory, in partnership with InFlow and Visa Intelligent Commerce, launches an agent-native commerce platform, enabling access to frontier AI models that fuel AI agents in action. AI agents can dynamically route between models based on cost, latency, or performance. This collaboration allows seamless AI agent workflows to autonomously research, procure, and pay for services while ensuring security and compliance, pioneering the B2AI economy on a global scale.
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The Dawn of B2AI Commerce
B2AI commerce, where AI agents research, negotiate, and complete purchases autonomously, is rapidly moving from concept to production reality. The new horizon is B2AI: an emerging commercial paradigm in which AI agents are the new customer type executing end-to-end procurement workflows under human-defined intent and outcomes.
Just as cloud infrastructure unlocked the SaaS economy, the agent-native commerce platform is now unlocking the B2AI economy, opening an entirely new commerce market.
Closing the Loop: The Full B2AI Commerce Stack
This three-way partnership assembles every layer required for an end-to-end, agent-native transaction.
InFlow provides B2AI commerce infrastructure for both sides of the transaction. AI agents (buyers) onboard, pay, and transact as discrete customers. Businesses (sellers) onboard, transact with, and monetize agent-driven demand at scale.
Visa Intelligent Commerce contributes trusted payment credentials and global network access, ensuring every agent-initiated transaction is authenticated, policy-governed, and fully auditable.
FPT AI Factory serves as the production inference layer, demonstrating the agent-native commerce platform live where AI agents access compute services, execute high-frequency API calls, and generate sustained, programmatic demand.
Together, the three companies cover the complete transaction stack: identity, payment credentials, and AI compute, making B2AI commerce operational today.
What This Unlocks for AI Innovators
For AI agent developers, the partnership removes the friction that has historically kept commerce out of autonomous workflows. Procurement, onboarding, and payment now execute without human-in-the-loop intervention, and every transaction remains traceable and policy-governed in a single, uninterrupted workflow.
For businesses offering AI services, the platform opens up an entirely new customer segment. AI agents can autonomously onboard and transact on the platform, purchasing inference services, selecting models for corresponding workloads, and sustaining operations without interruption.
Powering Continuous Agent Workflows on FPT AI Factory
FPT AI Factory (NVIDIA Cloud Partner) offers robust GPU Cloud, inference-ready AI platforms, and access to more than 25 of the latest AI models via production-ready API, including Nemotron 3 Super, Alpamayo, Qwen 3, and Llama 4, covering the full range of AI workloads from training to deployment. The platform utilizes the latest NVIDIA HGX B300, H200, and H100, fulfilling the rigorous demands of next-generation AI and high-performance computing workloads.
Within FPT AI Factory, agents dynamically route between models based on cost, latency, or performance requirements, with InFlow handling continuous usage and payment settlement across every inference request. The result is an uninterrupted agentic workflow: agents identify the capability they need, onboard programmatically, transact via Visa Intelligent Commerce's global payment network, and execute inference at scale, all without a single manual approval step.
About FPT AI Factory
FPT AI Factory delivers an all-in-one AI Developer Cloud that combines NVIDIA-accelerated GPU Cloud services, inference-ready AI platforms, and ready-to-use AI applications. Guided by the vision "Build Your Own AI," FPT AI Factory empowers enterprises, startups, and the tech community with the compute power, model variety, and deployment flexibility to support any AI workload while ensuring optimal price-performance and sovereign AI.
FPT AI Factory Partners with InFlow and Visa Intelligent Commerce to Launch an Agent-Native Commerce Platform
NEW YORK (AP) — If LeBron James knows where he will play this coming season, he's still not saying.
The NBA's career scoring king and current free agent spoke publicly for the first time in weeks Thursday afternoon, indicating that a decision is close — though stopping short of revealing which team he'll choose to play for this fall, despite at least one cry from someone in a jampacked room shouting for him to “pick a team.”
“I won’t hold you guys up too much longer," James said.
The four-time NBA champion had a pair of appearances Thursday: He recorded an episode of his “Mind the Game” podcast alongside guest co-host Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers in New York on the opening day of Fanatics Fest, then spoke at the Game Plan Summit presented by CNBC and Boardroom later in the afternoon.
At the summit, he told Boardroom co-founder Rich Kleiman in an on-stage conversation that making this decision has a slew of layers — many of which, it seems, are off the court.
“It’s not just about the team,” James said. “There’s so many other factors that I’m factoring in right now on what best fits me as a player, what best fits me as a person and what best fits my happiness, and also my family as well.”
At Fanatics Fest, an 11-year-old in the crowd asked James about free agency and his next team — “first of all, that was a hell of a question and some of the media people here probably should learn from the young fella," James said — and the youngster got perhaps the best answer of the session, with James indicating that the 2026-27 season may not necessarily be his last as a player.
“It's a big decision for not only myself, but for my family as well,” James said. “Just for the last part of my career and where I want to spend the last few years or the last year or the last two years of my NBA career ... I'm going to try to fit into whatever team I'm going into — but also give them all the tools and give them all the knowledge that I've been able to grasp over the last 23 years. I know the game. I know the ins and outs of the game of basketball.”
James playfully chided Haliburton for asking him about his future — “didn’t we talk about this in the back?” James asked, and Haliburton said he would ”leave it alone.”
Of course, they didn't leave it alone. James made reference to a slew of teams such as Cleveland, Miami, Philadelphia and Golden State, though didn't appear to give much in the way of hints. He did sip from a bottle of red wine that he opened and shared with Haliburton, calling it one of his podcast traditions.
And when fans shouted out suggestions for James' next team — one even asked him to play for the New York Yankees — no clues were forthcoming.
“We'll see,” he said.
James is the NBA’s oldest active player at 41 and the only player in league history to have a career spanning 23 seasons; this coming season will be his 24th. Speculation has been rampant for more than two months about his future, officially starting in May when the Los Angeles Lakers were eliminated from the NBA playoffs.
At that time, James said he didn’t know what he would be doing.
And the only developments that he’s revealed since came on June 30, when he said he would play this coming season and that he was leaving the Lakers after an eight-season run highlighted by the 2020 NBA title.
For more than two weeks, the NBA has been waiting to hear what comes next. James, as he did in a social media post at the time, lauded his time with the Lakers, who also offered him well wishes as he moves forward.
“I spent eight great years with the Los Angeles Lakers,” James said.
James’ resume is beyond compare in NBA history. He’s a 22-time All-Star, a 21-time All-NBA selection, a four-time Most Valuable Player, a four-time NBA Finals MVP, a three-time All-Star Game MVP, and was a member of the NBA’s 75th anniversary team.
He’s also coming off a season where he averaged 20.9 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 7.2 assists per game. For his career, he’s averaged 26.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 7.4 assists in more than 1,600 games.
James started his career in Cleveland in 2003 and spent seven seasons with the Cavaliers before heading to Miami for four seasons — where he won his first two titles. He then returned to Cleveland for four more seasons, leaving in 2018 to start an eight-season run with the Lakers.
Cleveland and Miami are believed to be on James' radar again as he weighs this decision, as are several other teams including Philadelphia, Minnesota and Golden State.
“I’m looking forward to what comes next as I wind down my journey,” James said.
Reynolds reported from Miami.
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FILE - Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James throws chalk in the air before an NBA basketball game against the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
