
Local news publishing and networking platform PublicNext has received Rs 1 crore in funding from Google and has been selected as a recipient of the Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge (Asia Pacific).
The company will use the funding to scale up its technology team and build an artificial intelligence-powered system to moderate news content.
“We intend to replicate user adoption, unit economics across 28 states and 8 union territories in the next 4 to 5 years. Looking at the demand for local content and community, the future looks bright with audio interaction like clubhouse being built for authorities to interact with local people, Local question and answer platform, and even local commerce leveraging ONDC (Open Network for Digital Commerce),” Manjunath Rao, CEO, PublicNext said in a statement.
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