Published on February 19, 2024
In Deep Tech

This Indian AI Startup is Bringing LLMs to Your Kitchen

The company uses a proprietary technology called Up⤴️AI, built to understand the details of cooking – right from getting ingredients ready to making complete meals.

Image by Nikhil Kumar

By Siddharth Jindal

upliance.ai, India's AI-powered home appliance company that featured on Shark Tank India, recently secured a ₹34 crore seed round at a valuation of ₹143 crore. The funding was led by Khosla Ventures, renowned for investing in AI startups like OpenAI, Rabbit, and Sarvam. upliance.ai’s AI Cooking Assistant comes in the form of a jar with a smart 8-inch screen attached. It can prepare over 500+ dishes, including paneer stir fry, chole masala, steamed rice, and chai, for instance. “We are actually working closely with OpenAI, and it's not just about the APIs. We have also started using our own trained models, so it's not as simple as ChatGPT,” said Mahek Mody, upliance.ai chief, in an exclusive interview with AIM. “We want to build Netflix, but for food," he added, saying 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," he said. Tech B

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Siddharth Jindal

Siddharth is a media graduate who loves to explore tech through journalism and putting forward ideas worth pondering about in the era of artificial intelligence.