Discourage, the startup behind a news based on artificial intelligence that aims to help publishers, not only to steal their work, is bringing its product to the web. Tuesday, the company has announced the launch of the new particle website.News that connects consumers of news with titles and summary of artificial intelligence from a variety of sources, in addition to the possibility of deepening various categories such as technology, sport, entertainment, politics, crime, crime, economics and video games, in addition to navigating the most popular stories of the day.
The company thinks that bringing its product to the web will help reach multiple readers, giving them a different way to keep up with the news using the improvements of AI technology.
Like the existing particle mobile app, the site offers artificial intelligence tools designed to help consumers better understand the news. Instead of summarizing the stories in key list for a faster reading, the particles also extracts key quotations and allows users to ask questions about history through a chatbot AI. These questions and answers from users are available on the new website, but the site does not yet offer the opportunity to interact directly with the IA.
While reading the news on the particle, if you want to know more about a topic, you can access “entity pages” that detailed information on a person, a specific product or organization mentioned in history. For example, when you see the word “Trump” or “Knicks” or “Nintendo Switch” highlighted in a title or a summary of the news, you can click on a page that offers basic information taken from wikipedia and links to multiple stories on the subject.
Particles also highlights the stores that cover a story by sharing the connections to their stories directly together with its summary summary summaries. In the first tests on mobile devices, the company discovered that readers were clicking on the sites of publishers through these connections, leading the particles to start collaborating with specific publishers such as Reuters, Fortune and AFP to view their connections more evidently.
On the new website, the particle also shows connections to related reports at the bottom of its artificial intelligence summary to click on users to read more.
In addition, when users share a link from the mobile particle app, it will connect readers to the destination page dedicated to the website, opening access to the particles content to multiple readers, including those who have not installed the app.
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The addition of AI to the news and journalism market has sometimes been controversial, in particular when some publishers attempted to outsource the reports to artificial intelligence robots, leading to many repercussions. But the founders of particles want to find a way to use the IA to help readers better understand the news, without stealing traffic from publishers.
Particles was founded in 2023 by the former Senior Director of Management of Products on Twitter, Sara Beykpour, and former Senior engineer of Twitter and Tesla, Marcel Molina. It is supported by $ 4.4 million in funding for Seed and a $ 10.9 million Serie A led by Lightspeed.
Particles is combined with other efforts to exploit artificial intelligence for the summary of the news, including the former Mother Society of Techcrunch, Yahoo, who has acquired the news app artifact from the Instagram co-founders to renew his news app with features based on artificial intelligence.
Bloomberg, Gannett (USA Today), Wall Street Journal and others have also experienced summaries of artificial intelligence articles. However, readers probably forgive less than the errors of Ai on the websites of the news in which they report the news directly, compared to an independent app dedicated to artificial intelligence summaries and questions and answers.
