Particle brings its AI-powered news reader to the web

MangoStartup on the back of the AI-driven Newder that targets Help publishers, not simply steal their jobBringing the product to the web. Tuesday, the company announced to launch the new one Particle.News The website that connects to various sources of news customers with titles and AI briefs, as well as browsing the most popular stories of the day on the home page as well as the ability to enter various sections like technology, sports, entertainment, politics, science, crime, economics and video games.

The company thinks that the web will help to reach more readers that bring its product, using AI technology enhancements, providing them different ways to continue the news.

Like the existing particle mobile app, the site provides AI equipment designed to help customers better understand the news better. Instead of shortening stories on the original bullet points for a quick lesson, particles also take out the original quotes and allow users to ask questions about the story via AI chatbook. These questions and answers from users are available on the new website, but the site does not yet give the ability to interact directly with AI.

When reading the news on the particle, if you want to know more about a topic, you can access the details of the “entity pages” of any particular person, product or company mentioned in the story. For example, when you see the word “Trump” or “Nix” or “Nintendo Switch” highlights a title or news summary, you can click on a page providing more story links about basic information and topics drawn from Wikipedia.

The particles also highlight the news covered by a story by sharing links to their stories directly as well as their stories. In the preliminary examinations of the mobile, the company has discovered that readers are clicking on publishers’ sites through these links, led by specific publishers such as Reuters, Fortune and AFP to start the particle to start partnerships more prominently.

On the new website, the particles also show the links to the report related to the bottom of its AI summaries so that the users click to read more.

Also, when users share a link from the particle mobile app, it will connect the dedicated landing page to the readers’ website, more readers will open access to particles, including those who have no installed.

Adding AI to the market of news and journalism was often controversial, especially when some publishers Outsource reporting has been attempted in AI BotsMany backlash leads to. However, the founders of the particles want to find a way to use AI to help readers better understand readers better without stealing traffic from publishers.

The particle was established by the former senior director of the product management on Twitter in 2023, SarahAnd a former senior engineer of Twitter and Tesla, Marcel MolinaThe It is supported $ 4.4 million Seed funds and a 9 10.9 million series A Led by lightspeed.

Kanta joins other attempts to lift AI for News Summary for News Summary including Yahoo, a former parent company of TechCrunch Artifact News App from Instagram co-founder From Rebuild the News App Including AI-driven features.

Blomberg, Ganet (USA today), Wall Street JournalAnd others, the shortcomings of the AI ​​article are also examining. However, readers are probably less forgiveness on AI’s mistakes on the websites of the news outlets where they are reporting the news directly, comparing it to an independent application dedicated to AI summaries and Q&A.