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· today in ai · 2026-08-27
Radar makes podcasts searchable by agents
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Particle's Radar transcribes and indexes podcasts with MCP access, so AI agents can search, quote, and clip audio they otherwise can't parse.
Particle, founded by former Twitter engineers and led by CEO Sara Beykpour, launched Radar August 26, a platform that transcribes and indexes more than 130,000 podcasts, adding 20,000 new episodes daily, and exposes them to AI agents through an API and Model Context Protocol. As Beykpour put it:
Agents are generally blind to audio; they can’t see it unless something or someone has transcribed it.
— Sara Beykpour, Particle CEO Radar extracts quotes, speaker labels, and entity metadata, and starts at $29 per seat monthly, with a $399 business tier.
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- 01Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agentstechcrunch.com · reporting
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