New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be
Joe Wilkins
created: Jan. 9, 2026, 4:05 p.m. | updated: Jan. 19, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
Watch out, bartenders: your jobs might be next on the AI chopping block — at least if tech startup Breakreal has anything to say about it.
One of those devices is the Breakreal R1, a cocktail dispenser that its creators say is imbued with the power of a large language model.
A first-hand look at the device from Gizmodo‘s James Pero reveals what we can probably all intuit: the device is no match for a human bartender.
Though the Breakreal website brags that R1’s “LLM-powered intelligence… distills your cravings into bespoke generative recipes” via “unlimited AI generated recipes,” the device can only hold eight cocktail ingredients at a time.
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