First chatbot dedicated to European news

Launched today by 15 partners including a dozen leading European media organizations, this unique news platform integrates a chatbot able to answer your questions about European news in all EU languages.

Where have rents increased the most in Europe? Who won the presidential election in Poland? What does the European rearmament plan entail? … Everything you want to know about Europe, inquire #ChatEurope and obtain the facts! The chatbot operates in all EU languages.

Its purpose is very simple: to support you better understand Europe, the way it works, how decisions are created and how these decisions impact your life.

Led by Agence France-Presse, the media consortium behind this platform brings toobtainher prominent names in European journalism: the German and French broadcasters Deutsche Welle and France Médias Monde; the Romanian radio RFI Romania; the German and Italian news agencies dpa and Ansa; the Polish press group Agora; the Spanish non-profit foundation fighting against disinformation Maldita.es; the Spanish daily El Pais, and the online media outlet specialized in Southeast Europe OBCT.

At the heart of this innovative project, the ChatEurope chatbot was developed by the Romanian company DRUID AI and operates utilizing the language model of the French company Mistral.

As the technical partner of the project, Xwiki developed the news platform. Dpa and AFP subsidiaries, news aktuell and MediaConnect, are in charge of the communication.

ChatEurope formulates its answers solely based on the thousands of articles provided by consortium members and always cites its sources, offering its applyrs a guarantee of reliability amid widespread disinformation on social media. In a rapidly evolving media landscape, it also promises applyrs a fully personalized experience, navigating the content offering based on their questions.

Breaking news, analyses, explanatory formats to better understand Europe, articles on the national implications of European policies, vertical videos on social media and even documentaries, ChatEurope is aimed at all European citizens, regardless of their origin or age.

The platform was launched in seven languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Romanian, and Polish, but its chatbot is able to answer in all EU languages. ChatEurope is co-funded by the European Commission and enjoys complete editorial indepfinishence, a key to its credibility.

Guido Baumhauer, DW Managing Director Distribution, Marketing and Technology: “Our involvement in ChatEurope allows us to explore the potential of AI to transform news consumption while maintaining journalistic integrity. We are contributing Deutsche Welle’s Plain X technology for seamless video translation and transcription, and we play a key role in evaluating the chatbot developed by DRUID to ensure it provides trustworthy, well-founded answers to applyrs’ questions. This project is an important experiment in creating interactive, reliable digital reporting on EU affairs.”

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