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AI @ Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, and other beverages
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Last updated
July 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM

Summary

  • Since 2021, Coca-Cola has progressively embraced AI technologies, evolving from big data analysis for consumer insights to advanced generative and agentic AI integrations across marketing, operations, and product innovation.
  • Major milestones include a $1.1 billion, five-year partnership with Microsoft (2024), wide deployment of generative AI in advertising and content creation producing thousands of multilingual assets, AI-driven demand forecasting boosting sales by 7-8%, and internal creative efficiency improvements with Project Fizzion.
  • The company’s strategic AI approach balances human creativity with AI outputs, applying strict governance to ensure brand integrity and reduce risks, while piloting agentic AI solutions for autonomous actions and conversational marketing, yielding measurable increases in engagement and revenue.

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5 AI Use Cases at Coca-Cola

Demand Forecasting
2025
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Revenue
Agentic AI algorithms that incorporate weather, geolocation, and historical sales data to predict customer demand, leading to a 7-8% sales increase in pilot markets by optimizing inventory and distribution. [1]
Brand Governance
2025
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Costs
Project Fizzion integrates AI with design software to enforce brand guidelines automatically, enabling consistent, adaptive creative asset production across markets and reducing errors and production time by up to 10x. [1]
Conversational Marketing
2025
Customer Facing
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
AI agents engage consumers directly with personalized conversations and interactive experiences in multiple languages, improving customer experience and gathering deeper insights on consumer attitudes. [1]
Content Creation
2024
Customer Facing
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Revenue
The company employs generative AI models to produce large volumes of marketing assets and advertisements rapidly across 130+ languages, significantly reducing time and cost while increasing consumer engagement. [1][2]
Consumer Insights
2024
Traditional
Generative
Agentic
Outcome
Revenue
Coca-Cola uses AI-driven analytics to understand consumer preferences and market trends in real-time, enabling dynamic behavioral segmentation and more effective targeting, particularly of Gen Z consumers. [1][2]

Timeline

2025 Q4: no updates

2025 Q3

1 updates

CIO Neeraj Tolmare reported AI pilot projects achieving 7-8% sales uplift via demand forecasting and a 20% increase in consumer engagement with AI-generated content; focus on bias mitigation and agentic AI exploration.

2025 Q2

1 updates

Launched Project Fizzion with Adobe Firefly AI to automate brand and design assets creation, accelerating production up to 10x and scaling creative output globally while ensuring brand standards.

2025 Q1

1 updates

Advanced consumer-facing AI initiatives including personalized conversational AI experiences in 26 languages and social media engagement tools; emphasized AI democratization and governance.

2024 Q4

1 updates

Released AI-generated holiday advertisements using multiple generative AI studios and foundation models, emphasizing the blend of human creativity and AI, though sparking some public controversy.

2024 Q3

1 updates

Coca-Cola expanded AI use with NVIDIA generative AI for scalable multilingual marketing content, AI-driven consumer engagement, and launched AI co-created flavor and holiday campaigns.

2024 Q2

2 updates

Entered a $1.1 billion partnership with Microsoft to accelerate cloud migration and generative AI applications, integrating Azure OpenAI into marketing and innovation.

2024 Q1

1 updates

Coca-Cola leveraged generative AI for advertising, including chatbot marketing and out-of-home campaigns, scaling content creation efforts.

2023 Q4

1 updates

Continued AI education and development focus, with no direct Coca-Cola-specific AI initiatives detailed.

2023 Q3

2 updates

Generative AI innovated Coca-Cola's marketing and product design with AI co-created futuristic flavors and art-focused advertising campaigns.

2023 Q2

1 updates

Coca-Cola implemented autonomous AI agents such as drones for facility inspections, showcasing early use of agentic AI.

2023 Q1: no updates

2022 Q4: no updates

2022 Q3: no updates

2022 Q2: no updates

2022 Q1: no updates

2021 Q4: no updates

2021 Q3

1 updates

AI began at Coca-Cola focusing on big data analytics to understand customer preferences and inform product development.