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Maybe this was edited in later (I missed it the first time), but...

>Though Summly's own Web site once said: "SRI International, with the help of the Summly team, built the summarization technology behind Summly," we are told that D'Aloisio "invented" the product's original technology.

>In a statement provided to us by a Yahoo spokesperson, an SRI spokesperson says: "Basically, Nick developed the original code for Summly."

>"After the original product was built, SRI supported development of the technology and provided artificial intelligence expertise in machine learning and natural language processing."

I don't know about you, but I need a pretty large grain of salt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y11ps1H6Aq4 is a youtube demo of his first app, trimit, 9 months and $300,000 in VC before summly. It seems 2 comprez ur mezages like this. Maybe that's the original code.




At the 1 minute mark he says "some other.. form.. of documentation.. which I don't know what that is". So either he misspoke, or he didn't actually even develop that original app.


The video isn't made by the Summly founder. It's just a random person reviewing the app.




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