{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Good Tech Companies ","title":"Onton's New AI Trust Model Beats Google and Amazon at Product Accuracy","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/b01f2d2c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":619,"description":"\n        This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ontons-new-ai-trust-model-beats-google-and-amazon-at-product-accuracy.\nOnton launches a from-scratch AI trust model that beat Google Shopping and Amazon on accuracy benchmarks, targeting synthetic content as agents take over buying\nCheck more stories related to tech-stories at: https://hackernoon.com/c/tech-stories.\n            You can also check exclusive content about #onton-ai, #agentic-commerce-trust-layer, #good-company, #ai, #e-commerce, #technology, #onton, #startup,  and more.\nThis story was written by: @ishanpandey. Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page,\n            and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nOnton, the San Francisco product discovery engine with 2M+ monthly active users, has launched a from-scratch AI model built to judge whether product information can be trusted, aimed at the agentic web where AI systems research and execute purchases for people.\n\nIn head-to-head benchmarks against Google Shopping and Amazon, Onton says its model outperformed on accuracy across essentially every dimension tested, with the widest gap in interpreting the veracity of product information. The claim is backed by a whitepaper.\n\nThe launch lands as AI-referred retail traffic explodes: up 693% YoY over Holiday 2025 and up 1,324% cumulatively since October 2024, per Adobe Analytics, while an estimated 30% of online reviews are fake, costing US businesses roughly $152B a year.\n\nOnton says the model learns entirely on its own and shows signs of generalizing beyond e-commerce, positioning the company to offer a trust layer for the broader internet, available today on Onton.com and case by case to partners. Onton's trust and authenticity model, launched July 29, 2026, is a from-scratch AI system that evaluates whether product information online can be trusted. In benchmarks it outperformed Google Shopping and Amazon on accuracy, especially at...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HZ9CRzf5js9DK86xzUVMWBRbXYwg4dA8xVXJGVzpL6Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMTNl/MjgwMmI0ZmEzNThj/YmJiOWNiN2UyZmRm/MzY3My5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}