Walmart · since 2025-06-06 · 13× · last seen Aug 05, 2026
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Sparky is Walmart's customer-facing generative AI shopping assistant, launched on June 6, 2025, exclusively within the Walmart app for U.S. customers. It answers product questions, summarizes reviews, compares items, and delivers occasion-based recommendations via natural language conversation. Built on retail-specific large language models, Sparky is designed as an agentic AI system with a roadmap to support multimodal inputs (text, image, audio, video), automatic reordering, and service booking. As of March 2026, Sparky also operates as a shopping agent inside ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
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Features
| Compliance/Certification | Uses only limited customer data per Walmart Privacy Policy; governed by Walmart's Generative AI Guidelines |
| Deployment Model | Cloud-based service embedded in the Walmart app; no self-hosting; extended to third-party surfaces (ChatGPT) |
| Use Case Scope | AI shopping assistant: product search, review summarization, product comparison, occasion-based recommendations; upcoming reordering, service booking, multimodal input |
| Integrations | Integrated into Walmart app; shopping app within ChatGPT (OpenAI Agentic Commerce Protocol) with account, loyalty and payment linking; connection to Google Gemini |
| Channel Integration | Walmart app (iOS/Android, US); from March 2026 as embedded shopping agent in ChatGPT (Web, later iOS/Android) and Google Gemini. No web interface on Walmart.com itself. |
| Platform | Walmart app (U.S. customers only); also integrated into ChatGPT and connecting to Google Gemini |
| Price | Free to use for Walmart app customers (no separate subscription/price disclosed) |
| Release Date | June 6, 2025 – rollout across all categories via 'Ask Sparky' button in the Walmart app |