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FollowLink pitches 'objective' news LLM and advances to county finale
Southwest Regional Quick Pitch (regional economic development event) · April 10, 2025
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Summary
FollowLink, led by Reid, presented an approach to build an open‑source LLM trained on a politically balanced dataset to generate 'objective' news; the team seeks $2.5 million for compute and scaling and placed third overall.
FollowLink presented a platform aiming to generate comparatively objective news by curating and rating articles across the political spectrum, then fine‑tuning a custom LLM on that balanced dataset. Founder Reid said the company is open‑sourcing its model and intends to partner with newsrooms and…
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