Baidu AI Cloud and FluxA Partner on Global Agent Payment Infrastructure

Baidu Intelligent Cloud and FluxA announce a strategic partnership aimed at building global payment and distribution infrastructure for the "Agent Economy." The article uses DAA (Daily Active Agents) introduced by Baidu founder Robin Li at the 2026 Create conference as background, pointing out that AI Agents are transitioning from information retrieval tools to autonomous economic entities capable of completing tasks independently, delivering results, and even participating in production, collaboration, transactions, and service delivery. As the number of Agents increases, simple person-to-person interactions expand into collaborative networks between people and Agents, and between Agents and Agents. Consequently, identity, accounts, authorization, payment, and settlement become new fundamental requirements.