Walmart
Walmart is a retail corporation that operates several chains of discount department and warehouse stores.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Food & Drug Retailing |
| Website | http://www.walmart.com |
Between 2014 and 2024, Walmart researchers released178 AI research articles
- #72in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 30.24citations per AI article on average (#123 in PARAT, #67 in the S&P 500)
- 19highly cited articles (#64 in PARAT, #25 in the S&P 500)
- +17.1%growth in Walmart's public AI research (2019–2022)
- 64articles at top AI conferences (#41 in PARAT, #15 in the S&P 500)
- 28.6%of Walmart's total public research was AI-focused
Walmart's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2019–2022) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 29 | 38.1 | -85.71 |
| NLP publications | 33 | 49.2 | 53.33 |
| Robotics publications | 2 | 0.5 | N/A |
| AI safety publications | 7 | 48.9 | N/A |
| Large language model publications | 10 | 10.9 | N/A |
Between 2014 and 2024, Walmart filed559 AI-related patents
- #44in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 39.1%growth in Walmart's AI-related patent filing (2016–2019)
- 328AI-related patents were granted to Walmart (2016–2019)
- 17.5%of Walmart's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Walmart's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2016–2019) |
|---|---|---|
| Planning and scheduling patents | 166 | 16.07% |
| Control patents | 87 | 1.97% |
| Computer vision patents | 79 | 46.18% |
| Knowledge representation patents | 41 | 108.33% |
| Measuring and testing patents | 29 | -2.78% |
Top use cases across Walmart's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2016–2019) |
|---|---|---|
| Business patents | 375 | 28.09% |
| Personal devices and computing patents | 270 | 68.38% |
| Transportation patents | 80 | -0.12% |
| Telecommunications patents | 60 | 91.67% |
| Banking and finance patents | 55 | 96.83% |
1,626
AI jobs
According to our data, Walmart currently employs about 1,626 AI workers (#22 rank in PARAT, #18 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
7,728
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Walmart currently employs about 7,728 Tech Team 1 workers (#53 rank in PARAT, #42 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, Clarivate Web of Science, and other leading sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.