Overview
- In a joint statement dated Feb. 19, the companies said they will explore an agentic shopping prototype on Shopee, indicating an early, exploratory stage.
- Google’s AI will also be applied at Garena to improve the productivity of game development, according to the partners.
- The tie-up reflects efforts to monetize AI beyond question‑answering into multi‑step task execution, with Alibaba unveiling an agentic model for rival Lazada this week.
- Shopee held about 52% of Southeast Asia’s e‑commerce market in 2024, Momentum Works reported.
- CoinCentral reported preliminary coordination on an Agent Payments Protocol for Sea’s Monee unit, which the companies did not include in their official announcement.