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Building a Plant Identifier with Foundation Models
A plant identifier is a nice excuse to see Foundation Models image attachments doing something concrete: pass an image, generate a structured plant name, then keep the conversation going with follow-up questions. The smart part is not re-analyzing the image every time; caching the identified plant keeps the UX from feeling like it is paying the same expensive bill again and again. There are rough edges, including model weirdness and real-device requirements on iOS 27, but that’s useful honesty. This is the kind of AI demo that maps cleanly to our own apps: identify once, ask many times, stream the answer when it gets longer.
