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Uber Eats is making shopping easier by introducing an intelligent assistant designed to streamline the customer experience, from product discovery to checkout. At the same time, Runway has raised an impressive $315 billion to support the training and development of the next generation of artificial intelligence models, signaling a major acceleration in AI innovation.
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Uber Eats launches an AI assistant to fill your shopping cart
Uber Eats has announced the launch of a new AI feature called “Cart Assistant,” designed to fill your grocery cart in just a few seconds. The beta version is already available in the app.
How it works:
Once on a grocery store page within Uber Eats, users can activate the Cart Assistant via a dedicated icon. They can either type in a shopping list or upload a photo (such as a handwritten list or a screenshot of a recipe).
The AI then identifies the products and automatically adds them to the cart, while allowing users to adjust brands or quantities if needed.
The tool also leverages order history to prioritize previously purchased items, creating a more personalized and faster shopping experience.
Runway raises $315 million
The AI video startup Runway has raised $315 million in a Series E funding round, bringing its valuation to $5.3 billion.
How it works:
The new funding will allow Runway to pre-train a new generation of “world models”, AI systems capable of building an internal representation of the world in order to anticipate and plan future events.
Known for its physics-aware video generation models, Runway recently released Gen-4.5, a model capable of producing high-definition videos from text prompts, with native audio generation.
The company is now expanding beyond media and advertising, targeting new industries such as gaming and robotics, signaling a broader ambition for real-world AI applications.
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