MasterChef LLM 🧑🍳

Following YouTube recipes and reproducing them can get awfully cumbersome. Fret not, uppliance.ai, India’s very own AI startup, has introduced an AI cooking assistant that can prepare over 500 dishes, including paneer tikka, chole masala, steamed rice, and chai without breaking a sweat. 

This is sure to catch Gordon Ramsay's attention.

“We wanted to build Netflix, but for food,” said Mahek Mody, upliance.ai chief, in an exclusive interview with AIM, adding that upliance offers you an infinite variety of food options.  “You don’t need to worry about whether you know how to cook something or not, you could just follow instructions.”

upliance.ai’s AI Cooking Assistant comes in the form of a jar with a smart 8-inch screen attached. The smart jar is equipped with a blade, a thermal sensor, and a heating element, enabling it to execute more than 16 cooking functions such as chopping, sautéing, blending, heating, and steaming.

The screen comes with the in-built ‘ChefGPT’, which answers all your queries about the recipes and suggests ingredients for the dish. Moreover, it can suggest new recipes based on the ingredients you have at your disposal.

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Mastermind behind Meta’s Video Recommendations

Hailing from a humble background in Goa, Amey Porobo Dharwadker was one of the first ML engineers in the video recommendations team at Meta. He has been with the company for over nine years now, serving as the engineering leader at Meta’s Menlo Park office.

If you encounter personalised content on Facebook or Instagram, chances are it's the work of Dharwadker and his team. Click here to read his story.

Indic Data Goldmine 

Professor Prasanta Kumar Ghosh from IISc Bangalore has devised a unique method to collect speech data in various languages and dialects, a crucial necessity in today's world where data is equivalent to gold. To find out how he accomplished this, click here. 

Money Matters 

Open source development has been the reason for the rapid growth of tech. The sustainability of open source projects, however, is dependent on the financial returns it sees over time. Enter Polar, a US-based company, which focuses on funding open-source projects through a subscription-based model.

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