Walmart fires OpenAI in playbook-changing move(www.thestreet.com)
26 pointsby petethomas6 hours ago1 comment
  • cf100clunk4 hours ago
    Its not that Walmart abandoned AI, it just swapped out OpenAI's chatbot for its own.
    • brianwawok3 hours ago
      Which is potentially powered by ChatGPT according to the article?
      • JumpCrisscrossan hour ago
        > Which is potentially powered by ChatGPT

        It’s not. It’s distributed through ChatGPT and Claude. But Sparky is Walmart’s kit.

        • hooloovoo_zoo8 minutes ago
          Well, they seem to be using 3rd party LLMs for websearch.
        • kotaKat7 minutes 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-n...