Particles, the startup behind a AI-powered news reader, which is supposed to help the publishers, not only steal their work, brings its product to the web. On Tuesday, the company announced the introduction of the new particle news website, which combines news consumers with headlines and AI summary from different sources, as well as the ability to deal with different categories such as technology, sport, entertainment, politics, science, crime, economy and video games, as well as browsing the most popular stories of the day on the homepage.
The company believes that the introduction of its product will contribute to reaching more readers and giving them another opportunity to keep up with the messages with the news with AI technology.
Like the existing particle -mobile -app, the website Ki -Tools offers with which consumers can better understand the messages. Instead of just summarizing stories into important list for faster reading, particles also extract important quotes and enables users to ask questions about the story about an AI chat bot. These questions and answers from users are available on the new website, but the website does not yet offer the opportunity to interact directly with the AI.
If you would like to learn more about a topic when reading the news about particles, you can access “Entity sites” that describe information about a specific person, a specific product or an organization that is mentioned in history. For example, if you highlight the word “Trump” or “Knicks” or “Nintendo Switch” in a heading or news overview, you can click on a page that offers basic information that was drawn from Wikipedia, and links to other stories about the topic.
Particle also underlines the news agencies that cover a story by sharing links to their stories right next to his AI summary. In early tests on mobile, the company found that readers click through these links to the publisher’s websites and prompted particles to work with certain publishers such as Reuters, Fortune and the AFP in order to show their links more prominently.
On the new website, particles also show links to related reports at the end of the AI ​​summaries to click the users to read more.
If users share a link from the particle mobile app, connect the readers to the dedicated target page on the website and open the content of particles to other readers, including those who do not install the app.
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Adding AI to the news and journalism market was temporarily controversial, especially when some publishers tried to outsource the reporting on AI bots, which was too much a counter reaction. However, the founders of the particle want to find a way to use AI to better understand readers without stealing the traffic of publishers.
Particle was founded in 2023 by the former senior director of product management at Twitter, Sara Beykpour, and former senior engineer on Twitter and Tesla, Marcel Molina. It is supported with 4.4 million US dollars of seed financing and a series A led by LightSpeed ​​of $ 10.9 million.
Particle competes to use AI for news summaries, including the former parent company of Techcrunch, Yahoo, who acquired the artefact messages app from Instagram’s co-founder to revise its news app with AI-powered functions.
Bloomberg, Gannett (USA), Wall Street Journal and others also experimented with summaries of the AI ​​articles. However, readers are probably less awarding the errors of AI on the websites of the messages on which they report directly about the messages compared to an independent app that is devoted to AI summits and questions and A -AS.