Herodot AI - Travel at any place like with a personal local guide
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We work on Herodot AI for more than two years moving from just a nice concept to truly reliable, easy to use app. Our task is to give you a feeling that you walk and travel with a knowledgeable local friend, who can guide you pretty much like a human, telling exciting stories on what is around, whatever catches your eye. Due to Google Cloud AI startups support program, we could make many of app features free. We hope you try and enjoy it on your next trip!
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Congrats on the launch! Been travelling a lot lately and is something i could really use. Best of luck!
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@th_calafatidis Thanks! Totally makes sense to try!
Love this idea. I often travel and see interesting places but never get the full story in the moment — having context from a photo or map right there feels super useful. Curious to try this on my next trip and see how natural the storytelling feels in real situations.
Combining CV, geolocation, and narrative generation to turn static landmarks into dynamic story experiences is a clever approach. Key tech likely involves multimodal understanding + RAG retrieval + real‑time location fusion—especially watch offline usability, historical fact‑checking, and privacy handling. If an API opens up in the future, it could spark a city‑storytelling developer ecosystem. Downloaded—testing in‑person this weekend.
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@nancelu Many thanks! Yes, please, test the app and share your feedback!
Hey love the idea. Adn, Congrats on the launch! One question, where does Herodot AI get its data and will it ever hallucinate and give me a wrong history?
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@midknightbill Hi Bill, good question. Stories are generated by LLMs (currently Gemini 3.0) based on it's training sets and data available in internet. Given that current models trained on all data publicly available, storytelling is quite accurate. LLMs tend to make up facts or make assumptions, but proper prompting may fix it. If you ask about not well known object, data accuracy issue may happen, but I'd say this problem is minor now.