Lenfest Institute expands AI journalism program with $5M more from OpenAI
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Lenfest 研究所把 2024 年启动的 AI 驻场项目扩大了，OpenAI 追加 500 万美元现金，外加最高 500 万美元的软件额度和技术支持。项目原本在 11 家地方报社各塞一个全职 AI 工程师，帮他们做实用工具。比如《费城问询报》搞了个叫 Dewey 的搜索工具，能翻几十年的历史报道；另一个叫 Scrape 的工具，把原来每周 15 小...
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- OpenAI NewsLenfest Institute expands AI journalism program with $5M more from OpenAI
The Lenfest Institute is expanding its AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with an additional $5 million from OpenAI, plus up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support. Launched in 2024, the program embeds full-time AI engineers in 11 local US newsrooms to build practical tools. Examples: The Philadelphia Inquirer's Dewey tool searches decades of archives, and Scrape turns a 15-hour weekly monitoring task into a daily digest. Chicago Public Media uses AI translation for faster Spanish coverage. Key lesson: success depends on trust, not just tech. A new cohort of news organizations will be invited. The post doesn't name which ones.
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