[BruceIV]

It looks like the 17-year-old got enough funding to hire a proper AI/NLP lab to do his algorithm - reading between the lines, it's difficult to say how much input the founder had on the new product: my guess would be concept, maybe design, and possibly interface coding.

[hu_me]

yes it appears the tech was done by SRI. still doesnt take away from the idea and execution though.

http://gigaom.com/2012/10/31/summly-wants-to-make-news-summa...

[BruceIV]

Fair. I know just enough AI to realize that this is a hard problem, so the whole news-friendly "genius self-taught teenager builds awesome app in his spare time" seemed a bit incredible - I still wouldn't want to be competing against this kid for a job, though, he's impressively smart.