Tech & Innovation

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Authors: Yuanzheng Zhu, Guanghua Shu, Raochuan Fan, Vinesh Gudla, Tejaswi Tenneti Introduction When people search for items on Instacart, they don’t always type perfectly worded phrases. They might write “bread no gluten” or “x large...

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Author: Paul Baranowski At Instacart, we’re powering a grocery platform that cuts across millions of items, customers, and deliveries thanks to the application of LLMs at scale. In this post, we’ll detail how LLMs are...

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Author: Riddhima Sejpal Key Contributors : John Stuppy, Min Kim, Laimonas Turauskas, Nathan Marks, Ben Bernard At Instacart, artificial intelligence (AI) is an accelerant reshaping how we build, scale, and innovate. Whether it’s fostering a...

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Author: Shih-Ting Lin Key Contributors : Shishir Kumar Prasad, Matt Darcy, Paul Baranowski, Sonali Parthasarathy, DK Kwun, Peggy Men, Talha Maswala When you search for almond milk, are you looking for something unsweetened? Organic? Vanilla-flavored?...

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Key contributors: Prithvi Srinivasan and Shishir Kumar Prasad Introduction Selling groceries online has a fundamental challenge: customers can’t pick up and examine products like they would in-store. This is especially true for prepared foods, butcher...

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Author: Jeff Wu Key Contributors : Lily Sierra, Nour Alkhatib, Steven Gross, Jacquelene Obeid, Kyle Swint, Monta Shen, Gary Song, Riddhima Sejpal, Jatin Jain, Shishir Kumar Prasad, Ayesha Saleem Introduction Millions of people rely on...

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Authors: Ankit Mittal, Vinesh Gudla, Guanghua Shu, Akshay Nair, Tejaswi Tenneti, Andrew Tanner In a previous blog post “ Improving search at Instacart using hybrid recall ”, we shared our progress on adaptively combining traditional...

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Author: Ben Bernard The universe of the current Large Language Models (LLMs) engineering is electrifying, to say the least. The industry has been on fire with change since the launch of ChatGPT in November of...

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How we developed a unified marketplace balancing engine with machine learning and optimization. Written by Trace Levinson , Senior Machine Learning Engineer. The Instacart Marketplace team is deeply focused on producing both timely, high-quality deliveries...