2023/5/1

• Upstage-Doing Lab provides food analysis function through application of food lens to AskUp

• Nutritional information analysis and recent 5 records just by taking pictures of food... Various functions such as 'recipe' and 'story' can be used

• “We will provide greater convenience to users’ daily lives through AskUp, an artificial intelligence personal nutritionist”

(Upstage = 2023/5/1) You can now talk to an artificial intelligence personal nutritionist through KakaoTalk through AskUp.

On the 1st, Upstage (www.upstage.ai), a company specializing in artificial intelligence, joined hands with Doing Lab (CEO Jin Song-baek), an artificial intelligence healthcare startup, to Korea's representative Chat AI 'AskUp' to apply food lens and add a food analysis function. said to do

AskUp is Korea's representative Chat AI that Upstage combines its OCR technology with ? (question mark) search and image creation model Upsketch based on Open AI's ChatGPT. It recently won 4 ICDAR crowns and became famous for 'Eyeless ChatGPT', which can read documents and answer questions based on Upstage's OCR technology, which boasts the world's highest level, and exceeded 900,000 channel friends within two months of launch. . Recently, even 'AskUp Biz' targeting corporate customers is getting a lot of attention.

Upstage applies Doing Lab's food recognition solution 'Food Lens' to its 'AskUp', and when a user takes a picture of food and sends it to AskUp, it will link with Food Lens to analyze and record nutritional information. am. For example, if you send AskUp a picture of the sandwich you ate for breakfast, FoodLens can tell you the calories, carbs, protein, fat, and other nutrients in the sandwich and give you dietary advice.

After sending food photos to AskUp, if you touch the 'Record' button among the buttons that appear at the bottom, it records your diet and recommends healthy recipes or foods that match your eating habits and goals. Food photos are recorded up to the most recent 5 cases.

In addition, through the 'Story' button that tells the story related to the food or the 'Recipe' button that tells you how to make the food, you can have various conversations about food as an artificial intelligence personal nutritionist. If you send a picture of 'Pizza' and press the 'Story' button, it will tell you the origin and type of pizza and the most expensive pizza in the world. If you send a picture of the 'steak' and press the 'recipe' button, it tells you the grade and type of steak, the time and temperature at which it should be grilled.

Various functions that combine Food Lens, such as 'Record', 'Story', and 'Recipe', are special functions that combine Food Lens's food recognition and AskUp's Create AI function to help you learn and enjoy food more deeply. It is expected to attract the attention of many users. In particular, Food Lens 2.0, applied to AskUp this time, recognizes all food through ingredient recognition and recipe prediction, and even recognizes the size of food in 2D images. It is a technology developed by Doing Lab for overseas expansion.

Upstage and Doing Lab announced that they would like to maximize the synergy of AI technology through this collaboration and provide services that help users lead a healthy diet. Seonghoon Kim, CEO of Upstage, said, “We are happy to cooperate with Doing Lab and apply the food lens function to AskUp to provide greater convenience to users’ daily lives.” It is positioning itself as a chat AI service that can respond to various requests from users, and we will continue to create new value through innovation in AI technology and collaboration with various industries.”

Jin Song-baek, CEO of Doing Lab, said, “Food Lens is a food recognition solution that automatically analyzes food photos and provides nutritional information. We expect that many users will be able to directly experience the technology of Food Lens, and we will continue to develop solutions that help many people manage their health through research and development.”

AskUp's food lens function is available from the 1st. For more information, visit the KakaoTalk AskUp page (https://askup.upstage.ai).

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