Walmart Prepares To Develop Its Own Cloud With AI

Walmart is investing in Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips to create its own corporate cloud and that way compete with Amazon, one of its most important rivals.AI is very important for retailers who aim to be competitive online and Nvidia’s graphic processing units are made to rapidly process a great deal of data. Beyond cloud services, the power of GPU processing makes them useful for AI applications as processing of natural language, image recognition, and machine learning. The move made by Walmart could lead the company to build its own AI capabilities in general, helping them comate Amazons and succeed in the retail landscape.Walmart and Amazon are not only locked in fierce competition for retail spending in the U.S. and beyond, but Walmart is reportedly telling its suppliers to run their applications on any cloud other than Amazon Web Services AWS. Amazon’s dominant position in cloud services makes it an easy target for the entire industry. With nearly 40% of the public cloud and around 34% of all the corporate cloud, AWS is a key reference.