Austrian AI startup newsrooms.ai introduced in the present day they are going to be buying Trending Subjects, an Austrian tech media platform closely concerned in Europe’s startup and tech innovation house over the previous decade.
newsrooms.ai believes this merger of AI expertise and publishing experience will create a “one-of-a-kind firm in Europe“, poised to set new requirements in content material creation and distribution for the AI period. Monetary particulars of the acquisition haven’t been disclosed.
“After search engines like google and yahoo and social media, AI is the following main disruption of the media world of the twenty first century. We wish to be on the forefront of this improvement,” says Bastian Kellhofer, Co-founder of newsrooms.ai and Trending Subjects.
Newsrooms.ai was initially incubated inside the media home of Trending Subjects and spun off in 2024 with its personal developer crew and investor Hermann Futter (CEO of Compass Group and investor in KickScale, Jentis, amongst others). Underneath the management of CEO Erek Stoisser, the corporate has developed market-ready, AI-driven SaaS for automated content material manufacturing primarily based on fashionable LLMs, tailor-made for media corporations and company communications.
The core expertise of newsrooms.ai, spearheaded by CTO Matteo Rosoli, is ‘Generative Engine Optimization’ (GEO) – an strategy to optimising on-line content material for AI search engines like google and yahoo and chatbots corresponding to ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity. GEO locations a robust give attention to linguistic high quality, European information processing, and distinctive editorial model for each media and company shoppers.
Previous to the official launch, greater than 1,000 articles have been already being generated every month utilizing newsroom.ai.
“Generative AI isn’t only a useful add-on, however the brand new basis of digital communication. Newsrooms.ai and Trending Subjects beneath one roof is a killer mixture. We’re embracing the speedy AI improvement and anticipating what’s inevitably coming for a lot of different corporations,” says Co-founder Jakob Steinschaden.
The roadmap consists of enlargement into audio, picture, and video content material, in addition to personalised AI morning briefings and Predictive Communication Intelligence (PCI). The imaginative and prescient is to construct an all-in-one platform that helps every little thing from data sourcing and content material manufacturing to publishing and analytics.
“Effectivity may be purchased. However nice language is priceless,” says Erek Stoisser, CEO of newsrooms.ai.”We wish to assist Europe develop its personal synthetic intelligence infrastructure that values linguistic variety as a significant cultural asset. Our mission is to help technological sovereignty and information safety for the continent.“
Underneath its new possession, Trending Subjects will proceed its protection of the tech trade, with an rising give attention to AI. It is going to additionally reportedly change into one of many first media manufacturers globally to be co-produced with AI at its core. Founders Jakob Steinschaden and Bastian Kellhofer will stay on board, maintain fairness in newsrooms.ai, and play central roles in product improvement, technique, and enterprise improvement.
“I’m fascinated by the expertise behind newsrooms.ai. It gives a formidable glimpse into the way forward for publishing. That’s my private cause for believing within the crew and investing within the firm,” says investor Hermann Futter.
