Today, The Washington Post debuted “Ask The Post AI,” a generative AI tool leveraging the publication’s deeply-sourced, fact-based journalism to deliver summary answers and curated results directly to users.
The launch follows one of The Washington Post’s biggest weeks for audience reach in nearly three years, building on its comprehensive 2024 election coverage.
The experimental tool leverages news articles published by The Washington Post’s award-winning newsroom since 2016, ranking the results based on relevancy. To uphold the integrity of the reporting, a threshold for scoring relevant reporting for any given question has been set (i.e. if the tool doesn’t readily find a relevant article — even if one is published — an answer won’t be served).
“This is the next chapter in building habits for our next generation of users,” said Vineet Khosla, chief technology officer for The Washington Post. “The changed search experience across the industry calls for us to meet the moment and meet audiences how, when and where they want to be served with an updated user experience.”
