Software:Artifact (app)

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Artifact
Artifact logo.svg
Original author(s)
Developer(s)Nokto, Inc.
Initial releaseJanuary 31, 2023; 17 months ago (2023-01-31)
Operating systemiOS, Android
Websiteartifact.news

Artifact was a personalized social news aggregator app that uses recommender systems to suggest articles. Launched in January 2023 by Nokto, Inc.[1], a company founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram,[2] the app is available for iOS and Android. The app’s name is a portmanteau of articles, artificial intelligence and fact.[3]

History

Nokto, Inc. was established on March 3, 2022, as a foreign stock company in California , with its headquarters in San Francisco .[4]

The company's main product, Artifact, is the first new product launched by Krieger and Systrom since their 2018 resignation from Instagram after conflicts with parent company Meta, which acquired Instagram in 2012.[5]

Artifact launched on January 31, 2023,[5][6] after the team had been working on it for over a year,[7] offering the option to sign up for a waiting list for its private beta, which grew to about 160,000 people,[8] and then launching in open beta on February 22, 2023.[9][10]

With a team of seven employees based in San Francisco, the app is currently free, with the founders stating that various business models—such as either advertising or subscription fees—may be explored in the future.[11]

In January of 2024, cofounder Kevin Systrom announced that the app would be shutting down after concluding that "the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way."[12]

Features

Frequently described as "TikTok for text" and a competitor to Twitter,[11][13] Artifact was a news aggregator that uses machine learning to make personalized recommendations based on topics, news sources, and authors that the reader is interested in.[14][15] In addition to reading articles, the app offered the ability to like articles, leave comments,[16] or listen to an audio version of an article read by AI-generated voices, including a simulation of the voices of Snoop Dogg or Gwyneth Paltrow.[17][18] AI also would rewrite clickbait headlines that users flagged.[19] Artifact later expanded to a social network where users could post links, images and text to their profile, which could be liked or commented on by other users.[20][21] Similar to other social news websites like Reddit, reader accounts had profiles with reputation scores.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "TERMS OF SERVICE" (PDF). p. 1. https://artifact.news/tos.pdf. 
  2. ↑ Newton, Casey (2023-01-31). "Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text" (in en-US). https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579552/artifact-instagram-cofounders-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-news-app. 
  3. ↑ Newton, Casey (2023-01-31). "Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text" (in en-US). https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579552/artifact-instagram-cofounders-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-news-app. 
  4. ↑ "California state incorporation filing". 2022-03-03. https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/api/report/GetImageByNum/207233217246182060246202229010063240068123143010. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Newton, Casey (2023-01-31). "Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text" (in en-US). https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579552/artifact-instagram-cofounders-kevin-systrom-mike-krieger-news-app. 
  6. ↑ Korn, Jennifer (2023-01-31). "Instagram's founders are back with a new app | CNN Business" (in en). https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/tech/artifact-instagram-founders/index.html. 
  7. ↑ Korn, Jennifer (2023-01-31). "Instagram's founders are back with a new app | CNN Business" (in en). https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/tech/artifact-instagram-founders/index.html. 
  8. ↑ Perez, Sarah (2023-02-22). "Instagram's co-founders' news app Artifact launches to the public" (in en-US). https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/22/instagrams-co-founders-personalized-news-app-artifact-launches-to-the-public-with-new-features/. 
  9. ↑ Peters, Jay (2023-02-22). "Artifact, the AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders, is now open to all" (in en-US). https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/22/23610612/artifact-news-app-instagram-co-founders-open. 
  10. ↑ Team, Artifact (2023-02-23). "Artifact: Now Open to Everyone" (in en). https://medium.com/artifact-news/artifact-now-open-to-everyone-268c3799ee40. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Criddle, Cristina (2023-02-01). "Instagram founders launch Artifact to rival Twitter and tackle misinformation". Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/85553e43-5623-4c30-ab57-2232e250ec0c. 
  12. ↑ Team, Artifact (2024-01-12). "Shutting down Artifact" (in en). https://medium.com/artifact-news/shutting-down-artifact-1e70de46d419. 
  13. ↑ Ghaffary, Shirin (2023-05-19). "Instagram’s co-founder explains why he’s starting over" (in en). https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/19/23727598/kevin-systrom-instagram-artifact-new-app. 
  14. ↑ Levy, Steven. "The Instagram Founders’ New News App Is Actually an AI Play" (in en-US). Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-instagram-founders-artifact-news-app-ai/. 
  15. ↑ "Instagram Founder Says the Time Has Come for a New Social Network" (in en). Bloomberg News. 2023-03-09. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-09/artifact-news-app-is-new-project-by-instagram-s-founders. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Instagram creators' Artifact app is starting to look more like Reddit" (in en-US). https://www.engadget.com/instagram-creators-artifact-app-is-starting-to-look-more-like-reddit-200546113.html. 
  17. ↑ Peters, Jay (2023-07-27). "Artifact is getting an AI-powered text-to-speech feature to read you the news" (in en-US). https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/27/23810160/artifact-ai-text-to-speech-read-news-snoop-dogg-gwyneth-paltrow-speechify. 
  18. ↑ "Artifact's App Forces an AI Snoop Dogg to Read the News to You" (in en). 2023-07-27. https://gizmodo.com/artifacts-app-forces-an-ai-snoop-dogg-to-read-the-news-1850683846. 
  19. ↑ Mehta, Ivan (2023-06-02). "Artifact news app now uses AI to rewrite headline of a clickbait article" (in en-US). https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/artifact-news-app-now-uses-ai-to-rewrite-headline-of-a-clickbait-article/. 
  20. ↑ Team, Artifact (2023-09-18). "Introducing Links" (in en). https://medium.com/artifact-news/introducing-links-4de8b92939c. 
  21. ↑ Team, Artifact (2023-09-27). "Create Your Own Posts on Artifact" (in en). https://medium.com/artifact-news/create-your-own-posts-on-artifact-a702a2c12a4b. 

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