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Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers | TechCrunch

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Zach Yadegari , the teen founder of Cal AI , says the app has over 5 million downloads in eight months .

He says the customer retention rate is over 30% and that the app generated over $2 million in revenue last month .

Cal AI's advantage is that it was built wholly in the age of large image models.

It uses models from Anthropic and OpenAI to improve accuracy.

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