Zip, the AI procurement platform valued at $2.2 billion, announced two products on Monday that mark a turning point in its evolution from procurement software to autonomous AI platform: a suite of five AI "Superagents" that can review contracts, code invoices, and negotiate with vendors inside Zip's governance framework, and a procurement-native implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that pipes Zip's data directly into AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT — without sacrificing audit trails or compliance controls.The announcements, unveiled at Zip's AI Summit in New York with speakers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Datadog, and Humana, arrive at a moment when the procurement technology sector has become one of the fiercest battlegrounds in enterprise AI. SAP [...]
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