ParticleStartup behind an AI-mangoing newspaper, which aims to help the publishers, not only to steal their work, bringing your product to the web. On Tuesday, the company announced a new launch Particle. The website that combines news consumers with headlines and AI summary from various sources, as well as browsing the most popular stories of the day on the home page, the ability to tall into various categories such as technology, sports, entertainment, politics, science, crime, economics and video games.
The company feels that bringing its product on the web will help to reach more readers, which will give them a different way with news using AI technology enrichment.
Like the existing particle mobile app, the site offers consumers designed to help consumers better understand the news. Instead of briefing stories in major bullet points for quick reading, the particles also take out major quotes and allow users to ask questions about the story through the AI Chatbot. These questions and answers of users are available on the new website, but the site does not yet provide the ability to interact directly with AI.
While reading the news on the particle, if you want to know more about a subject, you can access the “entity page” that gives detailed information about a specific person, product or organization mentioned in the story. For example, when you look at the word “trump” or “niches” or “nintendo switch”, which is highlighted in a title or news summary, you can click on a page offering more stories about the basic information and topic drawn from Wikipedia.
The particle also directly highlights the news outlets covering a story directly with its AI summary by sharing links to their stories. In early trials on mobile, the company found that readers were clicking on the publishers’ sites through these links, leading to the lead particle leading to start a partnership with specific publishers such as Reuters, Fortune and AFP to display their link more prominently.
On the new website, the particle also displays links from related reporting at the bottom of its AI summary to click users to read more.
In addition, when users share a link with the mobile app of the particle, it will connect the readers with a landing page dedicated to the website, which will deliver access to the content of the particle to more readers, including those that do not have the app installed.
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In addition to AI in the news and journalism market, there has been controversial many times, especially when some publishers Attempted to outsource reporting to AI BotsLeading for very backlash. But without stealing traffic from the founder publishers of the particle, the readers want to find a way to use AI to help better understand the news better.
The particle was established in 2023 by the former senior director of product management on Twitter, Sara BakeporeAnd a former senior engineer in Twitter and Tesla, Marcel molinaIt is supported by $ 4.4 million A series of $ 10.9 million led by seed funding and lightspaid.
The particles join the other attempts to take advantage of AI for the news summary, including the former original company of Techcrunch, Yahoo, which acquired the deformation evidence news app from Instagram co-founders. Prepare its news app With AI-Invented features.
Bloomberg, Ganate (USA Today), The Wall Street JournalAnd others are also experimenting with AI article summary. However, readers are less likely to reduce AI’s mistakes on news outlets websites, where they are directly reporting news, compared to an independent app dedicated to AI Summary and Q&AS.
