[AI Revolution](220) "Over 100 Million Data Records Alone"... Nuvilab Analyzes Nutrients in Meals, Targets Hospital and Senior Markets

Interview with Nuvilab CEO Kim Daehoon
Analyzing food data with an AI food scanner
From teaching young children healthy eating habits to validating patient meals
Trained a multimodal AI model on 100 million food data records
Plans to expand in

"We will become an artificial intelligence (AI) company that starts with meals and solves humanity's most pressing challenges."

Kim Daehoon, CEO of Nubilab (pictured), said in an interview with The Asia Business Daily that the company aims to expand its AI-powered business from providing precision nutrition solutions to offering personalized preventive medicine services.

Nubi Lab logo.

Nubilab is known as a "nutrition intelligence" company. Using AI food scanners, it identifies what people have eaten and analyzes the nutritional content of their food. By measuring meals before and after they are eaten, the company turns "who ate what and how much" into data that can be used for personalized nutrition management and food service operations.

Before founding the company, CEO Kim worked in advanced research and development at Hyundai Motor Group, evaluating emerging technologies such as AI and potential new businesses. During this work, he realized there was a shortage of data in the healthcare and nutrition fields, and founded Nubilab in 2018.

Nubilab's Nutrition AI and NutriGuard AI solutions have demonstrated their technological capabilities to the point that they are being used in the U.S. market. More than 20,000 meals are analyzed using Nubilab's technology in the United States every day. "More than 35 hospitals are already using Nubilab's technology in the U.S. hospital market, which has some of the world's highest barriers to entry," CEO Kim said. "At hospitals that adopted it, daily food omission errors fell by an average of 38% over 10 weeks."

The company also analyzes consumption rates by menu item in institutional food service to help reduce food waste and select menus.

Nubilab has invested heavily in training its AI on food data. Even the same dish can look different depending on who prepared it, and new menu items are constantly being introduced. To address this, the company trained multimodal AI specialized in food recognition and consumption analysis on food data. "We have analyzed and accumulated more than 100 million data points in the field," CEO Kim said. "As far as we know, we have analyzed more real-world measured meal data than anyone else in the world in this field."

CEO Kim plans to expand Nubilab into the senior market. Regarding the company's new business plans, he said, "We are currently running a pilot program at a welfare center. Based on this, we plan to expand into services that support personalized nutrition management and care at nursing facilities and through integrated community care."

"Precision nutrition is central to preventive and personalized medicine," he said. "We will expand into hospitals and the senior market, where the need for nutrition management is most urgent, and advance our technology to tackle challenges facing the world, not just Korea."

Nubilab CEO Kim Daehoon. Nubilab

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