david mcintosh

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Technology entrepreneur; co-founded and led Tenor (GIF search) to hundreds of millions of users, sold to Google and scaled to 1B+ users. Joined Instacart to lead enterprise platform and now runs Connected Stores, including the $350M Caper acquisition and AI-powered smart cart deployment.

2 calls·2 names·100% bull·last heard 2 months ago·NVIDIA
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$INSTACARTInstacartposition

Instacart scaling AI-powered smart carts to 100+ cities with double-digit sales lifts

Caper Carts (acquired for $350M) now live in 100+ cities, tripled YoY, deployed in ~20% of Wakefern stores; retailers see double-digit sales lifts, and new recommendation features add 1%+ absolute lift each; building a grocery foundation model from 1.6B+ orders and 2B item catalog to power agentic applications across online and in-store.

NVIDIA2026-06
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$NVDANvidia

Instacart CTO validates Nvidia Jetson as essential for edge AI in smart carts

Instacart's Caper Carts require Nvidia Jetson boards in every unit to run sensor fusion and physical AI at the edge with sub-hundred-millisecond latency; migrating ad workloads from CPUs to GPUs also cut latency and lifted click-through rates.

NVIDIA2026-06

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HIGHdavid mcintosh·NVIDIA·2 months ago
Instacart CTO validates Nvidia Jetson as essential for edge AI in smart carts
Instacart's Caper Carts require Nvidia Jetson boards in every unit to run sensor fusion and physical AI at the edge with sub-hundred-millisecond latency; migrating ad workloads from CPUs to GPUs also cut latency and lifted click-through rates.
"This system would not work without the sensor fusion physical AI system running on the Jetson board at the edge... migrating workflows from CPUs to GPUs with respect to ads had re…"
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$INSTACART
Instacart
HIGHdavid mcintosh·NVIDIA·2 months ago· position
Instacart scaling AI-powered smart carts to 100+ cities with double-digit sales lifts
Caper Carts (acquired for $350M) now live in 100+ cities, tripled YoY, deployed in ~20% of Wakefern stores; retailers see double-digit sales lifts, and new recommendation features add 1%+ absolute lift each; building a grocery foundation model from 1.6B+ orders and 2B item catalog to power agentic applications across online and in-store.
"We're now live 100 cities, tripled year over year... many of our retailers have shared that they're seeing double-digit sales lifts from Caper... that feature alone, that one feat…"
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