Last week at the FIBEP Tech Day conference, our Jiri Hana spoke about the practical challenges of building RAG systems for news publishers and media monitoring companies. RAG for news monitoring is a different beast than the typical tutorial examples. We deal with datasets of hundreds of millions or even billions of articles. A few…
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Geneea at WAN-IFRA AI Forum in Frankfurt
This week, our co-founder Petr Hamerník attended WAN IFRA’s AI Forum in Frankfurt, a conference connecting AI innovation and journalism. This was his third time attending, and the shift in maturity since last year’s events in Paris and Frankfurt is clear. We are seeing a move from tentative experiments to the deployment of production-grade tools…
Automatic Text Analysis of Pre-Election Communication by Political Parties
Parliamentary elections took place in the Czech Republic last Friday and Saturday. For Geneea, this was an important period — since 2020, we’ve been actively involved in reporting election results. For the Czech News Agency (ČTK), we automatically and in real time generate articles with both interim and final results, allowing journalists to devote more…
Geneea and Stibo DX Announce Partnership to Accelerate AI Innovation for Newsrooms
Geneea and Stibo DX are proud to announce a major milestone in their collaboration: Geneea has become an official technology partner of Stibo DX, marking the beginning of a closer product and business relationship. This partnership formalizes years of successful cooperation and shared innovation between the two companies. By combining Stibo DX’s industry-leading content management…
Buy, Don’t Build – and Other Media Trends: Geneea’s Takeaways from #INMA2025
In May, New York hosted the World Congress of News Media, the largest media conference organized by the International News Media Association (INMA). Geneea’s Jirka Hana was there to witness the latest developments firsthand. More than 600 participants from 43 countries came together to explore six key themes shaping the future of news media: One…
Geneea at the World News Media Congress 2025
As in previous years, Geneea actively participated in one of the world’s largest media and journalism conferences. The World News Media Congress, organized by WAN-IFRA and held this year in Krakow, Poland, attracts over 1,000 participants from more than 70 countries each year. Representing Geneea were our co-founder Petr Hamerník and our account manager Alžbeta…
Restabot: Taming Restaurant Menus with AI
Written by our NLP software engineer Rado Klíč. My team takes lunch seriously. Our daily quest through online menus to find the perfect lunch spot sparked an idea: what if a bot could simplify this? Since we work with AI daily in our business, applying it to a fun, everyday problem like choosing lunch felt…
Newsrooms Can Save Thousands of Hours with a RAG-Based AI Research System
For journalists, the most time-consuming part of writing an article is finding information. Gathering context, looking up numbers, and verifying facts can take hours—pulling them away from in-depth analysis, interviews, and uncovering new stories. As a result, newsrooms may spend hundreds—if not thousands—of hours every month on these tasks. With the rise of AI, many…
Creating a Great RAG for Media: Geneea Moderated a Roundtable at Data Science Day
This year’s Data Science Day, an international conference organized by WAN-IFRA, was hosted by the prestigious German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich. The event brought together data professionals from digital news, including analysts, scientists, engineers, and chief data officers, to share insights and experiences. One of the thematic roundtables focused on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems,…
AI and Journalism in 2025: Promising Prospects and Necessary Partnerships
The Reuters Institute at Oxford University has released its annual predictions on the future of journalism, particularly in the digital world, for the next 12 months. What key trends in media and AI are highlighted by the research? The report, Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2025, published annually since 2012, surveyed the opinions…
Geneea at Charles University
This week, Geneea’s Jirka Hana joined a panel on the development of Language Technologies and AI-based tools in the Czech Republic. The debate, organized by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at Charles University and the European Language Data Space, brought together top AI innovators from industry, academia and the public sector to discuss…
We’re celebrating Geneea’s 10th birthday
When we started in 2014, we were a small team of four with one generic NLP platform. Fast forward to today, we’ve developed several unique language technologies, completed hundreds of projects, and analyzed billions of texts for some of the biggest brands in the media industry and beyond. Our knowledge database now boasts over 10…
Geneea at WAN IFRA AI Forum
This week, our co-founder Petr Hamerník attended WAN IFRA’s AI Forum in Paris. This conference connects the biggest innovators in AI and journalism, and we are honored to be part of this inspiring community. So, what are the key insights for implementing AI into journalistic processes in 2024? 1) Generative AI is here to stay—it…
New version of Frida
Winter hibernation is coming to an end and we’re ready to tell you what’s cooking in our NLP kitchen: a new, slick version of Frida – a web application that provides comprehensive visualization of document and article analysis. We’ve incorporated valuable feedback from our clients, gathered over the years. We’ve improved UX, increased customizability, and…
News Impact Summit 2022
Geneea and the Czech News Agency discussed their experiences of using automatic text generation in election coverage at this year’s News Impact Summit: The Future of Editorial. The event took place in Prague on October 6, 2022 and was organized by the European Journalism Centre and the Google News Initiative to celebrate innovation in journalism…