Amazon and Walmart bring AI agents closer to shopping decisions and purchases

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Amazon and Walmart are each bringing AI agents into enterprise procurement and everyday shopping, moving agents closer to actual purchase decisions. Walmart’s Sparky can create a shopping cart from a photo of a handwritten list or a digital list, and offers product recommendations, recipes, and in-store item-finding features; voice capabilities are expected to roll out across the entire chain by the end of the year. The agent mode on AWS Marketplace increased conversion rates from about 3% to 6%, but this does not represent Amazon Business’s overall procurement performance.