The app also includes features like "Explain Like I'm 5" for simplified versions of complex stories, summaries in different languages, and audio summaries. One of its unique tools, "Opposite Sides", presents different viewpoints from the same story to break users' filter bubbles. Another feature is an AI chatbot that allows users to ask questions about a story and get instant answers. The company plans to use human editors as it grows to better manage the AI content and curate its homepage.
Key takeaways:
- Particle, an AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, aims to help consumers better understand news and support publishers' businesses.
- Particle has partnered with specific publishers to host some of their content in the app via their APIs, including Reuters, AFP, and Fortune.
- The app uses AI tools to offer features like summarizing news in different languages, presenting news from different angles, and allowing users to ask questions about a story.
- Particle plans to introduce other ways to work with the media and is discussing with publishers about providing its users access to paywalled content.