Walmart Reveals AI Roadmap That Points To A World Without Search Bars

Walmart executives predict that traditional search boxes will become obsolete as the retailer rolls out Sparky, an AI shopping agent designed to handle everything from routine grocery orders to complex purchase research. The prediction came as part of Walmart's July 24 announcement of "the next chapter of AI at Walmart"—a comprehensive four-part agentic AI framework that includes Sparky for customers, Marty for suppliers and advertisers, an Associate Agent for employees, and a Developer Agent for building s ...