🗞 Rio is Your AI-Powered News Anchor
Yesterday, OpenAI signed a $250 million agreement with News Corp for 5 years to use content from publications such as The Times, The Sunday Times, MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and The Daily Telegraph. The agreement provides access to current news and archives for training OpenAI's models. This is a large volume of training data!
Since 2016, the startup Curio has had an extensive catalog of information partners, including WSJ, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and New York Magazine. Using this material, Curio trained its AI model. The startup has been transforming expert journalism into professionally narrated content. Currently, the company uses AI technologies to create a personal media assistant named Rio.
The new product attracted funding from Khosla Ventures and TED head Chris Anderson.
❓ How does it work?
Rio scans headlines from reputable media outlets and compiles this content into a daily news summary, which you can read or listen to.
In the app, the news feed resembles Instagram stories with graphics and links, where users can scroll through headlines and access full articles narrated by an AI voice.
You can also interact with Rio through a chatbot. Curio suggests using Rio with queries like: "Tell me about the possibility of peace in Ukraine," "What is the future of food products?" or "I have 40 minutes, update me on the latest AI news."
Rio is currently in early access, so you will need an invitation to join. Alternatively, you can join the waiting list at rionews.ai. Curio plans to fully launch Rio this year.
🔜 What’s next?
Such an interface may soon appear on major news aggregators like Google News and Bing News, or even on the websites of individual media companies.
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