Category: AI
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Last June at the Smart Kitchen Summit, Scott Heimendinger talked about today’s temptation among product builders to follow a similar path with AI as consumer product builders forged a decade ago when they added Wi-Fi connectivity to almost everything. “There’s a temptation that’s especially prevalent in our industry, but in others as well, that when…
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Last week, Anova announced the second generation of its Precision Oven, just over four years after it began to ship the first generation Precision Oven. The Anova Precision Oven 2.0 is packed with a number of new features, including an in-oven camera and Anova Intelligence, a suite of new AI features designed to power new…
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Over the past decade, there’s been no shortage of attempts to better understand, map, and recreate food and its properties with the click of a mouse. From new data ontologies to a proliferation of digital noses, we’ve seen incremental steps toward an envisioned world where the fundamental building blocks of food can be better understood.…
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This past week in Japan, Sony unveiled a project they’ve been developing in secret called Roku Shoku, a culinary recording system designed to capture exactly how a chef prepares a meal. The system also serves as a guidance tool, helping casual or inexperienced cooks create dishes with the precision of an expert with years of…
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We caught up with Raj Singh, head of Solo for Mozilla (and maker of the GPT Food Cam app) for an episode of The Spoon’s newest podcast, Spoon Full of AI. Singh, who we wrote about last month after he launched his calorie-counting app, talked with me about the importance of understanding how AI can…
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Food-tech company NotCo has developed a novel generative AI model, the Generative Aroma Transformer (GAT), capable of creating new flavor and fragrance formulations. The model, which the company presented on at the Food AI Summit last month, could be a potentially disruptive new tool that could impact a variety of consumer goods markets such as…
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In the most recent episode of the Spoon Podcast, I caught up with food scientist Ali Bouzari to discuss his work and get his thoughts on new technologies that are helping to shape the future of food. I first met Bouzari when he spoke at the Culinary Institute of America a few years ago about…
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If you’ve ever tried to log your food intake with an app, you probably have realized the following: For these reasons, I have not used a food-logging app for more than a few weeks, but that may soon change with GPT Food Cam. What is GPT Food Cam? In a few words, it’s a free…
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This weekend at IFA, several big appliance brands used the show to tell the world that they are all in on AI, mainly through the integration of cameras into their ovens paired with software to enable personalized recipes and customized shopping lists. Siemens showed off the iQ 700 oven has a built-in camera that recognizes…
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Almost a decade ago, while others experimenting with AI focused on algorithms for trading, diagnostics, or digital advertising, a company called NotCo was experimenting with AI by the name of Giuseppe to create plant-based foods that could match the taste and texture of their animal-based counterparts. According to Aadit Patel, SVP of AI Product and…
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Since the early 1900s, the entertainment industry has been attempting to pair the experience of smell with video entertainment. In 1916, the Rivoli Theater in New York City introduced scents into the theater during a movie called The Story of Flowers. In 1933, the Rialto Theater installed an in-theater smell system. Hans Laube developed a…
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Welcome to the Food AI Weekly Bulletin, our new weekly wrapup that highlights important happenings at the intersection of AI and food. Nowadays, there’s a lot of noise around how AI is changing food, so we decided to create a weekly brief to bring you what’s important, decipher through all the noise, and deliver actionable…
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