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Its not that Walmart abandoned AI, it just swapped out OpenAI's chatbot for its own.

• brianwawok 7mo ago
  Which is potentially powered by ChatGPT according to the article?
  • JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
    > Which is potentially powered by ChatGPT It’s not. It’s distributed through ChatGPT and Claude. But Sparky is Walmart’s kit.
    • hooloovoo_zoo 7mo ago
      Well, they seem to be using 3rd party LLMs for websearch.
      • JumpCrisscross 7mo ago
        > they seem to be using 3rd party LLMs for websearch Source?
        • hooloovoo_zoo 7mo ago
          If you ask the agent a product question you can trigger it into web search mode where it provides web links and autocomplete suggestions. You can follow the a/c suggestions down some pretty elaborate chains of questions but eventually it hits a rate limit and reverts to the default dumb bot.
    • kotaKat 7mo ago
      It sounds more like they probably have some kind of generic prompt that runs on top of either platform to "be" "Sparky" to provide Walmart sales and advertising on top. I wonder if this is so Walmart can sell the advertising for products inside Sparky from their own platform (Walmart Connect) and then run the Connect ads onwards 'inside' Sparky. See also: https://www.walmartconnect.com/resources/articles/2025/the-next-generation-of-ai-powered-retail-media https://www.walmartconnect.com/resources/articles/2025/the-n...
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