Walmart fires OpenAI in playbook-changing move

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

Which is potentially powered by ChatGPT according to the article?

> Which is potentially powered by ChatGPT

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

	▲	hooloovoo_zoo an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Well, they seem to be using 3rd party LLMs for websearch.
	▲	kotaKat an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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...