Otherweb

About Otherweb

Do you think ads are annoying? Do you hate fake news and clickbait?

Many people have this gnawing feeling that the internet stopped making sense at some point, and that perhaps we need to scrap everything and start over.

So.. we did.

We built a new platform for people who care about what they put into their brain. A smarter way to be informed. A sensemaking instrument for sensible people. The other web.

Here’s how it works.

We aggregate different types of content from thousands of sources. For example:
- Tech news
- Science news
- World news
- Local news
- Commentary and opinion columns
- Op ed articles
- Research studies
- Online courses
- Podcasts
- Encyclopedia entries

We apply 20+ NLP filters to weed out the junk, and attach a nutrition label to each article.

We use a summarizer AI model to generate a new headline and a bullet-point summary of each article - so you can get the gist of it, faster, and without clickbait.

We use a categorizer AI model to sort items by topic and to separate news columns from opinion columns. This way you can follow specific topics that interest you with complete control and transparency.

We create a two-dimensional way to navigate information -
So if you encounter an interesting concept in a news article and want to learn more, you can search for it in research studies or on wikipedia, or find an online course or a book on this topic. The same concept can be explored across different levels of rigor, and there’s no need to type - just highlight any text you see and search for it in any medium you like. Drill down, zoom in, zoom out, peak sideways.. explore!

What you get as a result is something truly remarkable.

A walled garden -- insulated from the noise of the outside world. A customizable feed of pure, pristine information, filtered and summarized by cutting edge artificial intelligence models. A smarter news reader app, combined with an education platform, that keeps you grounded, balanced, calm and informed.

The Otherweb has no ads, no clickbait, no fake news, no propaganda, no misinformation, no political bias, no sensationalism, and no junk.

Only high quality information and unbiased reporting, supported by artificial intelligence, scientific rigor, and complete transparency.

Join the community.
Be informed, my friend!