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Particle, the startup founded in 2023 by Sara Beykpour and Marcel Molina, has announced the launch of its AI-powered news reader on the web, expanding access to a platform that aims to revamp the way users interact with digital information.

Key points:

• Particle.news offers AI summaries and salient quotes from trusted sources.
• Includes entity pages with detailed information about people, products or organizations.
• Allows users to ask questions via an integrated AI chatbot.
• Partners with publishers such as Reuters, Fortune and AFP to highlight their content.

The new Particle.news website presents itself as an information hub that uses AI to organize and summarize news from a variety of sources. Users can explore different categories, including Technology, Sports, Entertainment, Politics, Science, News, Business and Video Games, accessing AI-generated headlines and summaries. One of its standout features is the ability to dig deeper into specific topics through “entity pages,” which provide detailed information about people, products, or organizations mentioned in articles, drawing on sources like Wikipedia and links to other relevant articles.

The site also integrates an AI-powered chatbot that allows users to ask questions about articles, providing contextualized responses. While direct AI interactions are currently limited on the website, user questions and answers are accessible, enriching the information experience. Particle also highlights news organizations that cover a given topic, sharing links to their articles along with AI summaries, thereby driving traffic to publishers’ sites.

Founded by former Twitter executives Sara Beykpour and Marcel Molina, Particle has raised $4.4 million in seed funding and a $10.9 million Series A led by Lightspeed. The platform stands out for its integration of AI tools designed to help consumers better understand the news, extracting important quotes and offering the possibility to ask questions via chatbots. These features aim to provide a more in-depth and interactive news experience, without taking traffic away from publishers, but rather by collaborating with them to highlight their content.

By expanding to the web, Particle joins other efforts in the digital news sector that are leveraging AI to improve access and understanding of news, giving users advanced tools to navigate an increasingly complex information landscape.

Particle’s availability also on the web represents another step in the evolution of access to news, combining advanced technology and collaboration with publishers to offer a richer and more personalized news experience.