Instacart is expanding its advertising solutions to Caper Carts, the company’s AI-powered smart carts.  Instacart will begin piloting ads on Caper Carts at Good Food Holdings banner stores with additional retail partners rolling out in the months ahead. Instacart expects to have thousands of Caper Carts deployed by the end of 2024.

Two recent product launches have shown how AI is changing food processing. James French, head of innovation at TOMRA Fresh Food, part of TOMRA Food, said AI is already adding value and its importance will grow.

The integration of information technology solutions has become not just a choice but a necessity for agribusinesses seeking sustainable growth. However, the success of IT integration largely hinges on two things:

Apeel Sciences has created a suite of technologies that enable suppliers to safeguard and grow their businesses. The company has launched a new campaign to communicate their latest advancements, making its business model faster, cheaper and easier for its partners.

Instacart is upgrading its AI-powered search with a new vision capability, which should allow users to search the platform using their own handwritten recipes and shopping lists. The company said it wants to leverage the latest AI advancements to deepen the relationship people have with food and grocery shopping.

Its early access and adoption of the new vision-enabled GPT-4 Turbo with Vision (GPT-4V) is the latest such example.

GrubMarket launched Farm-GPT, a groundbreaking new generative artificial intelligence product designed to empower American farmers and growers with valuable data-driven insights for maximizing profits and optimizing crop selection.

Farm-GPT harnesses the power of advanced AI and leverages the latest available pricing data from both the USDA and proprietary sources to assist farmers in making informed decisions about which commodities to cultivate based on market demand and revenue potential.