Magic Valley partners with Pythag Tech to boost cultivated meat scale-up with AI

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Magic Valley partners with Pythag Tech to boost cultivated meat scale-up with AI

Rafaela Sousa

11 August 2025

Magic Valley partners with Pythag Tech to boost cultivated meat scale-up with AI

Australian cultivated meat company Magic Valley has announced a strategic partnership with US-based deep tech company Pythag Tech to support its scale-up using AI-powered bioprocess optimisation.

By embedding Pythag Tech’s advanced machine learning platform into its operations, Magic Valley aims to reduce production costs, enhance process efficiencies and accelerate its path to commercial scale – bringing cultivated meat closer to widespread availability.

Pythag Tech’s platform addresses key bottlenecks in cultivated meat production by aggregating real-time bioprocess data to train models that continuously refine system performance. Core capabilities include optimising media formulations through predictive machine learning, reducing cost per kg by maximising productivity per litre of media, assisting with scale-up across different reactor sizes and learning from every run to improve over time.

The partnership is expected to increase capital efficiency by reducing waste and manual experimentation, shorten R&D timelines, build robust and auditable data infrastructure for regulatory confidence and improve sustainability by reducing energy, media and resource usage.

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