Walmart will use Nvidia and AI to gain ground on Amazon

There was a time, not too long ago, when Wal-Mart was the undisputed king of retail. However, e-commerce has changed the landscape, and over the last few years, Amazon.com, Inc. has been taking an increasingly large slice of the retail pie. Wal-Mart has been playing catch-up in online sales, but now it seems the retail giant is ready to take the fight to Amazon, with a little help from NVIDIA Corporation and artificial intelligence (AI). In a note to clients, Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry revealed that Wal-Mart would be building huge data centers to house its cloud computing and make a sizable push into deep learning, a segment of artificial intelligence.