9600 might be worth it, but the fact that it's tied to the internet and an app, I have no interest.

Not too many possibilities.

Perhaps constructive inyerferences in microwaves so that the power, and thus heating, is precisely focused within a specific volumetric location.

Oven beamforming.

Or another highly directive radiation source, again to target a specific location.

The question is more... ok, target a specific location where? Does it actually know where the different food items are on the tray, where is their center and where is their surface, and how each should be cooked separately?

Perhaps it is effectively radar that cooks stuff, and which can thus theoretically beamform and read directional reflections to detect where the food is.

Because it is mostly-enclosed, it can theoretically additionally detect how much energy isn't going back into the closed loop, and thus went into the food.

Disclaimer: I am not a radiologist.

Marketing material always makes it extra fancy but it's quite possible that the actual manual says that you must make sure that what you want to heat is at the centre because that's where the energy will be focused.

Also possible, though I got the impression that it was actually directing energy to specific places. And I was already fantasizing about microwave oven with CT-scanner :)

Yeah, I too was annoyed that they don’t talk about the how at all. It’s a really long page, about 3x longer than it needs to be.

My guess is infrared, but I was hoping someone more knowledgeable could chime in.

The worst part is that it is 3x longer than it needs to be because every claim they make is repeated, nearly identically and without further elaboration, at least 3 times. It's like watching the same exact commercial 3 times

If it works well, the price will plummet over the next 10 years.

$9k isn't too bad for a high end oven tbh.

Yeah, they're going to sell some many of these if the marketing is somewhat close to reality. Instant buy for anyone outfitting a high-end home.