Kosmix Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping
search engine which was acquired by
Amazon.com in 1998. They later created
Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk and started an early-stage
VC fund, Cambrian Ventures, that backed several companies later acquired by
Google. Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a horizontal search engine in June 2008, covering all subjects. For a key word or topic that a user enters, "Kosmix gathers content from across the Web to build a sort of multimedia encyclopedia entry on the fly. The company has built a taxonomy of nearly five million categories on a wide range of topics. The taxonomy includes millions of connections mapping the relationship among those categories."
Growth In June 2007, Kosmix announced a partnership with
Revolution Health, in which Revolution Health will utilize Kosmix to enhance content searches on RevolutionHealth.com.
Truveo announced in September 2007 that the company's video search engine is being used by Kosmix to present topic-relevant videos on its health site RightHealth, giving users a starting point to explore health topics. As of March 2008, Kosmix' market-share had grown 730% year-over-year. RightHealth was the #2 health site on the Web, according to
Hitwise. Kosmix launched a personal news site called MeeHive in March, 2008 which is similar to
Google News or
My Yahoo!, but allows users to customize their interests to a greater degree. Kosmix launched tweetbeat in June 2010 as it entered the social media arena. In October 2009, Kosmix acquired Cruxlux, an engine designed to take any two people, places, or things and tell the user how they are connected. Cruxlux was founded in 2007 by Guha Jayachandran and Curtis Spencer and was in private beta at the time of the acquisition. The terms of the deal are mostly unknown, other than that it was made in both cash and stock. In April 2011, Kosmix announced a partnership with
Ask The Doctor, in which their website AskTheDoctor.com would provide Q & A format medical content for Kosmix's website RightHealth.
Walmart Kosmix was acquired by Walmart in April 2011 and became @WalmartLabs for a rumored amount of $300 million. In June 2012, Harinarayan and Rajaraman announced that they would be leaving the company to take some time off, with no immediate plans. In June 2013, Walmart bought predictive intelligence startup Inkiru to add analytics capabilities. In June 2018, Walmart announced it would hire 2,000 additional employees into Walmart Labs to improve the company's online grocery shopping platform. In July 2019, it acquired health tech startup FloCare and B2B wholesale trading platform BigTrade to bolster its customer service. Some products developed at Walmart Labs are Social Genome, ShoppyCat, and Get on the Shelf.
Walmart Global Tech In 2020, Walmart Labs launched its new global identity as Walmart Global Tech. Walmart Global Tech develops and manages the foundational technologies on which Walmart Inc.'s customer experiences are built, including cloud, data, enterprise architecture, DevOps, infrastructure and security. The tech organization powers Walmart Inc. and its business units, including Walmart U.S., Sam's Club and Walmart International. It is also an enterprise services organization that develops solutions to help 2.3 million Walmart and Sam's Club associates work and live better. Since 2021, WGT has collaborated with
IBM to explore supply chain use cases and customer personalization. In August 2025, Walmart introduced an internal “super agent” for engineers called Wibey, designed to streamline and coordinate the work of over 200 separate AI agents already in use across the company. The company built Wallaby, a collection of retail-focused
LLMs designed to provide highly contextual responses for customer and associate experiences. ==Corporate organization and leadership==