July 26, 2025
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Walmart consolidates dozens of AI tools into four unified super agents to simplify user experience and accelerate online sales growth.
Walmart Consolidates AI Strategy With ‘Super Agents’
Walmart is overhauling its artificial intelligence strategy by consolidating dozens of fragmented AI tools into four comprehensive "super agents" designed to simplify interactions and drive e-commerce growth. The world's largest retailer announced plans to roll out these AI-powered super agents as the primary interface for customers, employees, suppliers/sellers, and software developers. This consolidation comes after the company built numerous specialized AI agents that were becoming confusing for users to navigate. In a LinkedIn post, Walmart chief technology officer Suresh Kumar stated that the company is deliberately choosing "to go beyond individual tools and build a unified, company-wide framework" that ensures every new agent makes life simpler for customers, associates, and partners.The Four Super Agents
- Sparky (Customer-facing): Already available on Walmart's app, Sparky helps shoppers reorder items, plan events, and even suggests recipes by analyzing the contents of a customer's refrigerator through computer vision.
- Associate (Employee-focused): This super-agent streamlines administrative tasks such as submitting parental leave applications and accessing sales data.
- Marty (Suppliers and Advertisers): Manages onboarding, handles orders, and creates ad campaigns for suppliers and advertisers.
- Developer Agent: Serves as a platform for developers to test and launch future AI tools. Walmart is betting on these AI innovations to drive its goal of increasing online sales to 50% of total revenue within five years. The company reported $648 billion in annual sales last year. To support this AI transformation, Walmart recently hired former Instacart executive Daniel Danker as executive vice president for AI acceleration, product, and design. Additionally, the company created another executive vice president position focused on AI that remains to be filled. While Walmart declined to specify whether the super agents would replace jobs, Dave Glick, senior vice president of enterprise business systems, suggested the technology would create new roles without providing further details. The retailer is connecting the various agents using an open-source standard known as Model Context Protocol, which enables the super-agent interface to call other smaller agents as well as internal apps and data sources. Source: Walmart Consolidates AI Strategy With ‘Super Agents’ - aibusiness.com (Published July 25, 2025)
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