Be a part of us at present for a stay occasion at 8:30 AM PT, that includes the mission leads for NotCo’s new AI to develop flavors and fragrances. Register and watch beneath or head to Streamyard.
Can AI be used to create new flavors and fragrances?
As I wrote final week, food-tech firm NotCo has been asking itself this query for the previous couple of years. Their reply is a newly unveiled generative AI mannequin, the Generative Aroma Transformer (GAT), that they are saying is able to creating new taste and perfume formulations.
The corporate’s Senior vp of Product, Aadit Patel, described the way it works this fashion: “The system intakes your immediate, comparable to ‘an ocean scent on a breezy summer season day on a tropical island’, to create a novel chemical formulation of that scent in a single shot.” From there, the mannequin generates a corresponding perfume method. In response to Patel, the mannequin is constructed on a “pure language to chemical composition” framework, tokenizing molecules to create a system able to understanding and producing novel mixtures.
NotCo says early assessments have been extraordinarily optimistic, and the corporate says their analysis signifies that GAT’s talents rival these of human perfumers. On the Meals AI Summit final month, the 2 product leads, Francisco Francisco Clavero and Cindy Sigler, gave an in-depth presentation on the science behind their new mannequin and talked about early outcomes.
Their presentation was fascinating, so I requested them to current to our Meals AI Co-Lab neighborhood.
Watch the recorded session beneath:
