News Summary

• Walmart announced major upgrades to its Walmart Translation Platform (WTP) Since its launch in 2022, Walmart said that more recent developments had contributed to a shopping experience that was "seamless, accurate, and inclusive for customers worldwide" Walmart said integrating AI has allowed it to smooth over contextual variations and mistranslations owing to dialect, regional vocabularies and slang, which can often lead to frustration for those shopping online.
• The latest version of the WTP runs at around one percent of the cost of its previous translation system, and Walmart projects that it will save the company more than $20 million annually.