Category: AI
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This week, I attended the Fancy Food Show in New York City. It’s long been one of my favorite food conferences, mostly because I just love walking around and sampling all the great food. I mean, who wouldn’t? While the fantastic food samples on the show floor are reason enough for me to get on…
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Earlier this month, we visited Google in Chicago, where we got a chance to put the Cloudchef cooking guidance system through its paces. For those not familiar with Cloudchef, the company uses computer vision to monitor a chef working through a recipe. Sensors and cameras monitor everything from the temperature of a protein to the…
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Nick Holzherr, founder of Whisk and head of Samsung Food, is this week’s guest on the Spoon Podcast. Those in the smart kitchen industry know Nick, in part because his company helped pioneer the early tech behind shoppable recipes, but also because his acquisition by Samsung is the culmination of one of the true success…
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Earlier this month, we learned that Amazon is phasing out its Just Walk Out technology at its Amazon Fresh grocery stores. The company didn’t say much about the reasoning behind it, but one likely reason is customers never valued skipping the checkout line in a traditional grocery store shopping experience as much as Amazon anticipated.…
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Welcome to the Food Tech News Show! You can watch the show live here at 1 Pacific/4 Eastern or on Streamyard, YouTube, or LinkedIn. This week Mike and Carlos be joined by Future Market’s Mike Lee to talk over some of the most interesting stories of the week. Mike Lee will also talk about his…
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Since ChatGPT debuted in the fall of 2022, much of the interest in generative AI has centered around large language models. Large language models, or LLMs, are the giant compute-intensive computer models that are powering the chatbots and image generators that seemingly everyone is using and talking about nowadays. While there’s no doubt that LLMs…
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If there was one thing we learned when we held the first-ever Food AI Summit last October, it is that pretty much every food company believes their business will fundamentally change due to artificial intelligence. Whether it’s companies building farm equipment, managing food supply chains, launching new grocery shopping formats, or creating new quick-service restaurant…
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This week, smart kitchen startup Fresco announced it had struck a deal with Middleby to integrate the Fresco Kitchen OS platform across the cooking equipment giant’s residential portfolio, starting with high-end kitchen appliance brand Viking. The first Middleby product line to incorporate the Fresco Kitchen OS platform will be the Viking RVL Collection. The RVL…
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We’re still sifting through some of the cool product demos from CES last month, and one that caught my eye was the demo by NXP of a presence-sensing cooktop powered by an embedded MCU. According to the company, the system used a Neural Processing Unit that runs the machine learning and facial-recognition algorithms within the…
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Chris Young has never been shy about providing his thoughts about the future of cooking. Whether it was on stage at the Smart Kitchen Summit, on his YouTube channel, or a podcast, he’s got lots of thoughts about how technology should and eventually will help us all cook better. So when I caught up with…
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The AI-voice bot customer service wave is coming at us fast, and the latest chain to roll out the technology is the sub-sandwich chain Jersey Mike’s. Soundhound announced this week that Jersey Mike’s will deploy its voice AI ordering system to allow customers to place orders by phone. According to Soundhound, the AI has been…
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Dodo Pizza, a thousand-store pizza chain that’s built a name for itself by experimenting with different types of technology, announced last week that it was trialing a new “In-App Flavor Generator” powered by ChatGPT. The new generator, which is only available for now in the Dubai market, allows customers to create personalized pizza flavors from…
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