Political monitoring firm PoliMonitor has secured government funding for a new R&D project to investigate and create its own in house LLM in order to roll out AI services to assist public affairs professionals.
The project - including funding from Innovate UK understood to total half a million pounds - aims to enable the firm to build a prototype parliamentary committee summarisation service.
This follows market research which found a high demand for summaries of political debates which currently prove very costly and time consuming to produce when undertaken purely by human research teams. The firm revealed that the 18 month project began in March this year and aims to conclude in summer 2025.
Commenting on the news, CEO and founder of PoliMonitor Sam Cunningham said:
“Due to the ever increasing speed and scale of parliamentary information to identify and analyse, public affairs professionals are crying out for innovative solutions which are faster, more affordable and crucially personalised to their individual needs.
“Early results indicate this project can deliver these results, automating what many call ‘the boring stuff’ which promises to not just make their lives easier, but leave them greater time to focus on more interesting work and impact political debates for the better.”