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📰 Meet Orbt: Bringing the future of news with a platform delivering concise, clear updates

12 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief product pitch, the speakers highlight a stagnating news landscape where consumers seek neutral, high‑quality information. They introduce Orbit (also referred to as Orbt), an AI‑driven platform that selects the ten most interesting and relevant stories each day, summarizes each into five concise bullet points, and delivers the same curated set to all users to ensure neutrality. After reading each story, users must complete a short Q&A before proceeding; this mandatory feedback is collected, labeled, and fed back into the system to train and improve large language models and natural‑language processing tools. The pitch positions Orbit as both a news service and a data‑generation engine for future AI development.

News is an area that hasn't seen change in the last decade despite changes in consumer behavior. People are craving for neutral and high-quality news to help them understand better.
That's where Orbit comes in. Orbit curates 10 most interesting and relevant news per day, delivering equally to everyone and ensuring neutrality.
So basically, we have our AI model that picks out based on an individual.
So we learn the individual and curate based on different topics, and it then summarizes them into 5 bullet points of the sentences and frees users from the chaos of digesting qualitative information. These are free to use, but users actively contribute feedback which we use to label data. This feedback will help us to fuel our development of creative large language models.
We're not only providing them news, we're actually getting people to fill out like a short Q&A right after to read the next news. If they don't fill it out, they can't move on. And what that allows us to do is it basically helps us collect data that we can use to train NLPs or large language models in the near future.