"Despite speculation on the Internet that Summly only licensed its summarizing technology from SRI International, an independent research institute, Mr. D’Aloisio said the technology was developed by Summly and that the company owned 100% of the intellectual property behind the service."
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/03/26/what-does-30-mil...
Launch coverage: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/summly-app-nick-daloisio-vi... http://gigaom.com/2012/10/31/summly-wants-to-make-news-summa... http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/1/3583720/summly-nick-d-aloi... "Summly uses a combination of natural language processing and 'rocket science' from the famed scientists at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to pick out only what's important from news articles"
http://summly.com/technology.html
Summly's internal team partnered closely with SRI in building our app.
Innovations from SRI International have created new industries, billions of dollars of marketplace value, and lasting benefits to society—touching our lives every day. SRI, a nonprofit research and development institute based in Silicon Valley, brings its innovations to the marketplace through technology licensing, new products, and spin-off ventures. Government and business clients come to SRI for pioneering R&D and solutions in computing and communications, chemistry and materials, education, energy, health and pharmaceuticals, national defense, robotics, sensing, and more. Visit sri.com for more information.
"Summly came to SRI International with a core concept to solve the information overload problem, which is especially challenging for mobile devices because of their limited screen size," said David Israel, Ph.D., program director in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International. "Building on SRI's expertise in machine learning and natural language processing, the Summly team is creating a new type of content, providing understandable and relevant summaries tailored for mobile devices."
I'm waiting for them to patent it and then sue newspapers for using headlines.