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Sparky is Walmart's AI-powered shopping assistant built into the Walmart mobile app. Shoppers can have a conversation with it — typing things like "Help me plan a flower-themed birthday party" — and it returns product suggestions, review summaries, and occasion-based recommendations. It launched in June 2025 and is available to U.S. app users. Walmart says customers who use Sparky spend about 35% more per order than those who don't.

Details

Sparky is powered by Walmart's proprietary large language models called Wallaby, combined with third-party AI models. It is designed to go beyond search: instead of listing results for a keyword, it interprets what a shopper is trying to accomplish and curates a relevant product selection. Walmart has described Sparky as "agentic," meaning it can take actions on a shopper's behalf — such as managing reorders or returns — not just answer questions. Future planned features include multimodal inputs (text, image, audio, and video). Sparky is one of four "super agents" in Walmart's enterprise AI architecture.

Products affected

Walmart mobile app

Sources & Evidence

News Article

Can Walmart’s AI bet close the gap with Amazon?

Retail Brew·Dec 2025

https://www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025/12/16/can-walmart-s-ai-bet-close-the-gap-with-amazon

Company Disclosure

Company DisclosureVerified

Walmart: The Future of Shopping Is Agentic. Meet Sparky.

Walmart Corporate·Jun 2025

https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/06/06/walmart-the-future-of-shopping-is-agentic-meet-sparky

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Trace Foundation. (2026). Walmart: Sparky is Walmart's AI-powered shopping assistant built into the Walmart mobile app. Shoppers can have a conversation with it — typing things like "Help me plan a flower-themed birthday party" — and it returns product suggestions, review summaries, and occasion-based recommendations. It launched in June 2025 and is available to U.S. app users. Walmart says customers who use Sparky spend about 35% more per order than those who don't (data as of 2026-03-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/19ac0c8d-8509-4ab7-bf23-4f6bf745c214. Accessed October 13, 2026.

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Data as of: March 22, 2026
Last verified: June 6, 2026

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