ParticleStarting behind an activated newsreader designed by AI aimed to help publishers, not only to steal their work, brings its product to the internet. On Tuesday, the company announced the start of the new Particles. Website linking news consumers with titles and AI summaries from various sources, as well as the ability to sink into various categories such as technology, sports, entertainment, politics, science, crime, economics and video games, in addition to touring the most popular stories.
The company believes that transporting its product to the internet will help to reach more readers, giving them a different way to keep up with the news using AI technology improvements.
Like the existing application for mobile particles, the site offers AI tools designed to help consumers better understand the news. Instead of summarizing the stories at key spots for a faster reading, the particle also extracts basic excerpts and allows users to ask questions about the story through an AI Chatbot. These questions and answers from users are available on the new website, but the site does not yet offer the ability to interact directly with AI.
When reading the particle news, if you want to know more about a topic, you can access “entities” pages that detailed information about a particular person, product or organization referred to in history. For example, when you see the word “Trump” or “Knicks” or “Nintendo Switch” highlighted in a head or news summary, you can click on a page that offers basic information taken by Wikipedia and links to more stories on the subject.
The particle also highlights the news agencies that cover a story, sharing links with their stories directly alongside AI’s summaries. In the first trials for the mobile, the company found that readers clicked on publisher websites through these links, leading the particle to start working with specific publishers such as Reuters, Fortune and AFP to show their links more importantly.
On the new site, Particle also displays links with relevant references to the bottom of AI summaries to keep users click to read more.
In addition, when users share a link from Particle’s Mobile app, they will connect readers to the special destination page on the site, opening access to the content of the Particle to more readers, including those who have not installed the application.
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The addition of AI to the news and journalism market was controversial at times, especially when some publishers Attempted to report reference to Bots AIleading to a very reaction. But the founders of the particle want to find a way to use AI to help readers better understand the news without stealing the release from publishers.
The particle was founded in 2023 by the former senior product management manager on Twitter, Sara beykpourand formerly senior engineer on Twitter and Tesla, Marcel Molina. Supported by 4.4 million $ Seed funding and a series of $ 10.9 million A, led by Lightspeed.
The particle joins other efforts to leverage AI for news summaries, including the former parent company of TechCrunch, Yahoo, which acquired the Instagram co -foundations application of Artifact news Refresh the news app with features operating with AI.
Parachute; Lawn (US Today), Wall Street Journal magazineOthers have also experimented with AI article summaries. However, readers are probably less forgiven the AI errors on the websites of news equipment where they directly report news compared to an independent application dedicated to AI and Q&As.
