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Particle launches an AI news app to help publishers, instead of just stealing their work
- Particle, an AI newsreader app, aims to serve a valuable role in the media industry by helping consumers make sense of the news while still finding a way to support the publishers.
- Particle offers different modes to approach the news, pulls out important quotes, and provides links for further reading, and spectators are clicking through to publishers’ sites because of the app’s user interface.
- The app includes traditional and modern Ai technologies like Open Ai’s GPT-40 and GPT-40 mini, Cohere, and others.
- Particle leverages AI to present news from different angles and uses a tool called “Opposite Sides” that presents different viewpoints from the same story.
- The app’s killer feature is an AI chatbot that lets you ask questions and get instant answers about a story, and after the answer is generated, it includes an extra step to find the supporting material that matches those answers.
- Particle aims to compensate publishers or drive referral traffic by showcasing and linking to sources directly under its AI summaries, and the app includes big tap targets to click through to publishers’ sites.
- The app is entirely free for iOS users for the time being and intends to introduce other ways to work with publishers to provide its users access to paywalled content.
- Particle plans to use human editors to help better manage the AI content and curate its homepage as it grows.
- The company claims that its technology reduces AI accuracy problems that would otherwise occur one out of 100 times and reduces their likelihood to one out of 10,000 times.
- Backed by $4.4 million in seed funding and $10.9 million Series A led by Lightspeed, Particle has partnered with specific publishers to host their content via their APIs, including Reuters, AFP, and Fortune.
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