US grocery technology company Instacart has launched Clementine, an AI shopping assistant across its US and Canadian marketplace. It converts conversations, recipes or shopping lists into personalised carts using real-time inventory, order history and preferences. Clementine draws on 1.6 billion lifetime orders and more than 2 billion catalogue items. Orders using the assistant average more items than Instacart’s typical basket and exceed its USD115 average basket size. (Instacart)