The digital arm of US-based retailing major Walmart has acqui-hired Bengaluru-based startup Dataturks. The acquisition is expected to enhance Walmart Lab’s machine learning capabilities for content enrichment.

The retail giant’s digital arm has been on an acquisition spree. It recently acquired Spatialand and Artificial Intelligence Startup Int.ai.

The company is set to hire 1,000 people in India this year. The five-member team will be part of merchant technology team for catalogue enrichment, Hari Vasudev, country head, Walmart Labs India, was quoted saying, adding “We are expanding tech teams, including data science, product management and design.”  According to Vasudev, the share of India in overall technology will be close to 50 percent in the next three to four years.

Founded in last year, by Gajendra Dadheech and Mohan Gupta, Dataturks makes ML data annotations super easy by allowing teams to upload data, invite other team member to upload and build training/evaluation dataset in hours and find labeled datasets.

Walmart Labs India aims to solve the biggest and most complex business challenges and delivers innovative tech solutions for Walmart – the world’s largest retailer and Fortune #1 company.  According to the company, “At Walmart Labs, a line of code can change the way the world shops.”