The new digital experience reinforces the brand’s commitment to innovation, leveraging cutting-edge technology to make avocado education as accessible and always good as avocados themselves

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Just in time for National Avocado Day, Avocados From Mexico is launching AVO.AI, a groundbreaking conversational AI platform designed to answer every consumer question — from ripeness and recipes to storage — making the brand the first in the produce industry to deploy a custom AI educational tool.Celebrating a record-breaking season where Americans enjoyed an unprecedented 2.76 billion pounds of Mexican avocado imports, the new tool helps fans make the most of every avocado.Powered by advanced AI and trained exclusively on the brand’s extensive educational library, AVO.AI empowers fans with ultimate produce confidence, taking the uncertainty out of selecting, ripening and storing.

DALLAS, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — This National Avocado Day, Avocados From Mexico®, the number one selling avocado brand in the U.S., has launched AVO.AI, a custom AI-powered answer engine designed to transform how consumers find reliable answers to avocado-related kitchen, storage, nutrition and recipe questions. The launch follows a record-breaking season where Americans enjoyed an unprecedented 2.76 billion pounds of Mexican avocado imports, highlighting the brand’s rapid growth and the massive demand for digital consumer resources.

While many brands are experimenting with generic third-party AI integrations, Avocados From Mexico is launching the produce industry’s first custom answer engine. Bypassing traditional search rabbit holes, AVO.AI acts as a knowledgeable kitchen sidekick, delivering tailored answers from the brand’s trusted vault of educational content. It’s a major step forward for produce marketing, proving the immense value unlocked when high-tech and high flavor meet.

Meeting Consumers Where They Are
Consumer search behavior has shifted: people no longer want to click through endless web pages for a single prep tip — they expect immediate, reliable answers.

Unlike a generic public AI tool that pulls from the open web, AVO.AI acts as a dedicated, brand-trusted assistant. By cutting out search clutter, AVO.AI gives consumers a direct, effortless line to exact avocado inspiration and tips, exactly when they need it.

“At Avocados From Mexico, we’ve always been obsessed with what’s next,” said Alvaro Luque, President and CEO. “We’ve spent years using AI to bring unexpected, fun experiences to our fans, and AVO.AI is our next big leap. This goes beyond selling more avocados and puts the focus on making your kitchen life easier and a lot more inspired. By adding this smart, hands-on tool to our digital lineup, we’re continuing to lead the category by redefining how people think about and enjoy avocados.”

A Smarter, Safer Kind of Brand AI
On a technical level, AVO.AI represents a major leap forward for brand owned media. Rather than requiring consumers to browse articles or sift through search results, AVO.AI turns Avocado From Mexico’s extensive content library into a conversational search experience that delivers a tailored answer to each question.

AVO.AI intuitively understands what a user is trying to accomplish and pulls highly accurate, strictly brand-safe advice. For example, when asked about avocado prep, the tool instantly delivers proper safety techniques, completely bypassing unverified or unsafe advice found on the open web.

“In building AVO.AI, we created something truly unprecedented: the first-ever AI tool dedicated exclusively to a single produce item,” said Kristian Bottini, CEO of 270B. “The technology is engineered for genuine dialogue, intuitively understanding consumer intent and context to deliver helpful, conversational answers. By anchoring the AI within a curated, brand-approved vector database, we ensured AVO.AI acts as a highly responsible, trusted ‘produce expert’ that consumers can reliably turn to for all their culinary inspiration.”

Smart Solutions for Everyday Kitchen Questions
For Avocados From Mexico, AVO.AI is more than a consumer tool — it’s a strategic listening post. The anonymous insights gathered will offer an ongoing window into what users truly care about, directly fueling the brand’s broader Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) strategy and shaping future content around real consumer needs. Because AVO.AI understands context, users can skip generic search results and ask highly practical questions, such as:

“How can I make guacamole if I only have half an onion?””I’ve already sliced my avocado, how can I store it so it doesn’t go bad as fast?””What is the safest way to remove an avocado pit?”

AVO.AI is now live, representing the first phase of a broader digital evolution for Avocados From Mexico. As the platform learns and scales, Avocados From Mexico plans to continually expand its capabilities, integrating it deeper into major cultural marketing moments and continuing to redefine the intersection of agriculture and technology.

To experience AVO.AI and learn more, visit https://avocadosfrommexico.com/avo-ai.

For more information about Avocados From Mexico, visit https://avocadosfrommexico.com, and follow the organization on Facebook (facebook.com/avocadosfrommexico), Instagram (@avocadosfrommexico), X (@AvosFromMexico) and TikTok (@avocadosfrommexico).

About Avocados From Mexico
Avocados From Mexico is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association (MHAIA), formed for the purpose of advertising, promotion, public relations and research for all stakeholders of Avocados From Mexico. Under agreements, MHAIA and the Association of Avocado Exporting Producers & Packers of Mexico (APEAM) have combined resources to fund and manage Avocados From Mexico, with the intent to provide a focused, highly- effective and efficient marketing program in the United States. Avocados From Mexico is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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A new geo-location-first social network helps enthusiasts find nearby owners, events, and drives, closing a gap the major platforms leave open.

RALEIGH, N.C., July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — GarageApp, a social network built for car and motorcycle enthusiasts, is available now on the web, iOS, and Android as the first platform to organize the community around location, giving owners a direct way to find and connect with the vehicles and people near them.

Where Instagram and Facebook are built on followers, GarageApp connects neighbors. Members search for nearby car and motorcycle owners by make, model, year, trim, or keyword, turning a distant online contact into someone they can actually meet, drive, and work on cars with. No other social platform is built around where the owners are located, and GarageApp was created to change that.

The problem was obvious to founder Dave Vandewouw, who spent years at car shows watching enthusiasts admire vehicles that they had no way to trace back to their owners to ask questions about their car or motorcycle or arrange to see it again.

“GarageApp was born out of passion from fellow car enthusiasts,” said Vandewouw. “We kept going to car shows where everyone was walking around admiring each other’s vehicles, but if you wanted to talk to the owner, you couldn’t find them. We built GarageApp so that when you’re at a car event or a Cars and Coffee, you can connect with the owner, ask questions about the car, and even plan to meet up beforehand, all based on the make and model you care about.”

Location runs through the whole app. Events, groups, and the feed can all be filtered by where a member is located, so people show up to nearby car shows and Cars & Coffee meetups already knowing which vehicles, and which owners, will be there. The result keeps car and motorcycle culture close to home.

Beyond location, GarageApp pulls the rest of an enthusiast’s world into one place. Members show off their builds in their Virtual Garage, generate AI-powered driving routes they can share live over CarPlay and Android Auto, and message one another privately. Event organizers get promotion tools and a direct line to attendees, with a live guest list showing who’s coming and which vehicle they’re bringing. GarageApp also offers an Affiliate program, and is currently the only social network in the industry that offers revenue share.

GarageApp is available on the web and for download on the App Store and Google Play. To learn more, visit garageapp.com.

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Planned CHIPS R&D funding to scale Extropic’s Thermodynamic Sampling Units for AI workloads and fabricate them at an American foundry.

SAN FRANCISCO and WALTHAM, Mass., July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Extropic, the American company pioneering thermodynamic computing hardware, today announced the signing of a letter of intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce for up to $75 million in funding through the CHIPS Research and Development Office (CRDO). The planned funding is expected to accelerate the development of Thermodynamic Sampling Units (TSUs), an entirely new category of semiconductor purpose-built for probabilistic AI workloads, and qualify a domestic manufacturing path for the technology.

TSUs use the natural thermodynamic fluctuations of standard CMOS transistors to sample directly from programmable probability distributions in a power-efficient manner, a capability useful for generative AI, simulations of biology, markets, and beyond. The same capability extends to probabilistic inference for physical intelligence and defense, where robots, autonomous systems, and sensor platforms must reason under uncertainty in real time on tight power budgets. On key generative-AI workloads, TSUs can achieve energy-efficiency gains of orders of magnitude over conventional GPUs.

“The current era of AI is one of exponential acceleration, and energy is its binding constraint. Brute-forcing the digital, deterministic paradigm to unfathomable scale cannot be the endgame,” said Guillaume Verdon, founder and CEO of Extropic. “TSUs harness the inherent randomness of nature to deliver more intelligence per watt. And because they run on mature nodes, we can build them here, in American fabs, without waiting in line for anyone else’s capacity. We are proud to partner with the Trump Administration, Secretary Lutnick, and Executive Director Frauenhofer to manufacture this new category of compute on American soil and help return the United States to compute dominance.”

Replaying the playbook that built Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley was built on public-private partnerships: the first integrated circuits found their earliest volume customers in federal programs, and the government acting as first customer and first investor is how the American semiconductor industry was built up. Six decades later, Extropic is reinventing how the transistor is used for the generative AI era, moving beyond deterministic digital logic into stochastic electronics and thermodynamic computation. Once again the federal government is acting as a key partner to bridge the gap from working prototype to production scale and accelerating the scaling and diffusion of this technology into the market. Thermodynamic computing will fundamentally change how we compute from the ground up, enabling new capabilities, unparalleled energy efficiency and greater access to AI at lower costs for all Americans.

Scaling American AI output

AI’s overall growth, accessibility, and costs are running up against the limits of the power grid: both power production and energy efficiency have become limiting factors for American compute. In the age of AI, a nation’s strength will be measured by its total intelligence production: the watts it generates, multiplied by the intelligence it extracts from every watt.

While America secures the watts through a new American nuclear renaissance, spurred by the President’s May 2025 executive orders on nuclear energy, power efficiency will determine whether artificial intelligence is ubiquitously and cost-efficiently accessible at scale. This investment in thermodynamic computing will push the frontier of how much intelligence per watt one can get from American silicon, unlocking a path to potentially orders of magnitude greater total intelligence output at a national scale. More intelligence output means more discovery, more industry, and more abundance, compounding directly into American economic strength and the prosperity of every American.

Building the first large-scale thermodynamic computing system

For Extropic, the bridge from prototype to production runs from the X0, the prototype silicon chip that took thermodynamic computing from zero to one, to the Z1, its first production-scale TSU. Under the letter of intent, the planned R&D funding would support bringing the first Z1 clusters online and demonstrating chip performance on generative-AI benchmarks. Much of the frontier of this work lies beyond the chip itself, in the systems around it: the infrastructure to control TSUs, connect them to one another, and integrate them with conventional forms of computing at rack scale.

The systems scaling work supported by this award will allow for Z1 clusters large enough to begin exploring thermodynamic AI algorithms at scales impractical to simulate on GPUs today. This will in turn enable the discovery of novel algorithms native to this hardware paradigm. Accelerating that algorithmic development is key to migrating generative AI workloads from traditional accelerators to the more power-efficient substrate that is the TSU.

Bringing the thermodynamic computing supply chain home

Extropic’s TSU chips are unique in that they extract more computation from orders of magnitude fewer transistors by operating them probabilistically, achieving dramatic power efficiency gains without requiring the smallest transistors from the cutting edge process nodes. As a result, TSUs can be manufactured on mature process nodes with substantial capacity available in the United States today, without competing for the predominantly offshore leading-edge wafers on which the world’s supply of digital accelerators depends.

The capstone of the project is a new thermodynamic chip: Z1.5, an iteration over Z1, but now fabricated at a U.S. foundry, establishing onshore production capability for thermodynamic computing for the first time. Extropic has already demonstrated the fab-portability of its probabilistic primitive IP, with two X0 variants taped out and successfully tested at two different fabs.

“With today’s compute supply chain investments, the Trump Administration is accelerating America’s innovation engine,” said Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. “These strategic investments will enhance our country’s domestic capabilities, create high-paying jobs and keep America at the forefront of the semiconductor industry.”

Stochastic electronics represent the future of computing for AI, and they have different fabrication requirements than digital. This award will ensure U.S. foundries create the manufacturing know-how to begin optimizing the American supply chain for the next generation of computing. Onshoring that supply chain is essential to American sovereignty and national security as computing transitions to its next substrate.

“The CHIPS R&D incentives will support a breakthrough in compute architecture to power next-generation AI and scientific discoveries,” said Bill Frauenhofer, the Executive Director for Semiconductor Innovation and Investment at the Department of Commerce. “Accelerating R&D for probabilistic compute provides American industry the energy efficiency to scale complex AI workloads securely and rapidly.”

The company will share a comprehensive technical update on its full thermodynamic computing stack, spanning hardware, software, and API access, in the coming days.

The letter of intent is non-binding, and the planned funding remains subject to the negotiation of definitive agreements with the Department of Commerce and the achievement of project milestones.

About Extropic

Extropic co-designs full stack thermodynamic computing systems that are radically more energy efficient than GPUs. Its Thermodynamic Sampling Units (TSUs) deliver more intelligence per watt, per square millimeter, and per second. The company’s stack spans silicon, systems, compilers and stochastic programming frameworks. Extropic is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with offices in San Francisco. Learn more at extropic.ai.

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