"R1's "LLM-powered intelligence... distills your cravings into bespoke generative recipes" via "unlimited AI generated recipes," the device can only hold eight cocktail ingredients at a time. Consider a scenario where you load up ingredients to pump out a Manhattan - rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters - as well as a Vesper, which calls for gin, vodka, and Lillet Blanc."
"The R1 is also "a bit slow," Pero reports, taking 20 to 40 seconds to spit out a cocktail, some of which was leaking "out of the arm of the machine and not the nozzle." On top of all that, it's incredibly expensive. According to Breakreal's website, the R1 will retail for a mind-blowing $1,299 when it launches on Kickstarter at some point in the future."
Breakreal introduced the R1, a cocktail dispenser that uses a large language model to generate bespoke recipes. The machine can hold only eight ingredients at once, limiting its ability to make cocktails with distinct ingredient sets like a Manhattan and a Vesper loaded simultaneously. Performance is slow, taking 20 to 40 seconds per drink, with reports of leaking from the arm rather than the nozzle. The R1 will retail for $1,299 on Kickstarter, with an early-access coupon reducing the price to $999. A non-AI Bartesian machine sells for $349, raising questions about R1's competitiveness given its constraints and cost.
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