Atex has announced it has been selected among the winners of FAIR’s Spoke 5 grant, focused on high-quality AI. The FAIR initiative is promoted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) and funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
Atex says its selected project, JEDI (Journalistic Excellence through Domain-specific Intelligence), is a 12-month research and development effort to explore how tailored AI models can support journalistic work—ethically, effectively, and at scale.
While general-purpose LLMs such as GPT-4 or Claude offer impressive capabilities, they’re not built with newsroom needs in mind, added Atex. JEDI takes a different approach: instead of training a massive generalist model, the project focuses on developing smaller, domain-specific models optimized for key editorial tasks, the company continued.
Atex says JEDI is concentrating on two high-impact use cases:
- Transcribing raw audio (interviews, press conferences, etc.) into high-quality, editorially sharp content.
- Rewriting press releases—which are often too promotional—into newsroom-ready drafts with appropriate structure and tone.
These tasks may seem simple in theory, but doing them well requires deep understanding of editorial standards, nuance, and variety of tone. That’s where focused, fine-tuned AI models can make a real difference, continued Atex.
Atex is currently looking for newsrooms interested in joining the project, especially by sharing sample input / output content to help improve model performance.
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