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DoorDash Launches AI Agent for Text-Based Food Orders
Confirmed
In Short: DoorDash today launched a new AI agent that allows users to order food via text in Apple’s Messages app, according to multiple reports.
To use the service, customers must join a waitlist and will be notified when access is granted.
The AI agent, powered by DoorDash’s MCP (model context protocol), can understand natural language requests and place orders based on user preferences and order history.
DoorDash co-founder Andy Fang said during a media event that the feature is designed to simplify the ordering process.
Users can text the AI agent to order their usual meals or request personalized recommendations.
For example, a user might text, “Get me a healthy dinner for my family, ordering for my son too so nothing too spicy,” and the AI agent will build the order accordingly.
The service also allows users to send pictures of their fridge for recipe ideas and ingredient suggestions.
DoorDash is currently piloting the feature in the U.S. and plans to expand Android support soon.
By launching this AI agent, DoorDash aims to differentiate itself from competitors like Uber Eats and Grubhub.
In addition to the new AI agent, DoorDash announced it will begin testing delivery drones with select restaurants in Northern California.
What this adds
The AI agent is part of DoorDash's broader strategy to integrate AI into its services, making food ordering more seamless and personalized.
Users can also view food photos in the chat to help them decide what to order.
What's confirmed
- To use the service, customers must join a waitlist and will be notified when access is granted.
- The AI agent, powered by DoorDash’s MCP (model context protocol), can understand natural language requests and place orders based on user preferences and order history.
- DoorDash co-founder Andy Fang said during a media event that the feature is designed to simplify the ordering process.
- Users can text the AI agent to order their usual meals or request personalized recommendations.
- For example, a user might text, “Get me a healthy dinner for my family, ordering for my son too so nothing too spicy,” and the AI agent will build the order accordingly.
- The service also allows users to send pictures of their fridge for recipe ideas and ingredient suggestions.
- DoorDash is currently piloting the feature in the U.S. and plans to expand Android support soon.
- By launching this AI agent, DoorDash aims to differentiate itself from competitors like Uber Eats and Grubhub.
- In addition to the new AI agent, DoorDash announced it will begin testing delivery drones with select restaurants in Northern California.
What's still developing
- DoorDash today launched a new way to order your next meal: via text in Apple’s Messages app, powered by AI.
- While Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots have gotten a lot of attention, AI agents are popping up in ways that are less obviously “AI” too.
- AI agents are here to stay, and they don’t just look like cute digital creatures.
- Are you interested in using DoorDash’s AI agent to order via Apple’s Messages app?
- The delivery platform has launched the DoorDash MCP (model context protocol) for corporate ordering to make it easier for companies to put their office restaurant orders and supply restocks on autopilot, DoorDash co-founder Andy Fang said during a media event in San Francisco, which was live streamed on Tuesday.
- Additionally, the company has started piloting a feature via Apple Messages where people can text DoorDash what they’re craving, or to reorder their usuals, and it will order for them.
- Your favorite meal is now just a text or Slack message away, through new AI-powered features from DoorDash.
- On Tuesday, the company announced a new “text DoorDash” feature that lets users text DoorDash directly through Apple’s Messages app and have an AI agent handle the actual shopping and ordering.
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- DoorDash, a platform that has already given people a unified way to shop ( sometimes without their permission ) from restaurants and businesses and will pick up and deliver whatever you buy to your doorstep, is apparently concerned that things just aren’t easy enough for consumers.
- To fix that, they’ve jumped on the AI agent bandwagon and built one that you can text orders to directly.
- The feature, still in beta, will require getting placed on a waitlist in order to access it.