Artifact news app is shutting down, one year post-launch by Instagram founders

Artifact, a personalized news app curated by AI, is shuttering its windows and shutting off comments, just one year after it launched from the minds of Instagram’s former founders. “We have built something that a core group of users love, but we have concluded that the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment … Read more

Instagram co-founders’ news aggregation startup Artifact to shut down

Artifact, the news aggregator-turned social network from Instagram’s founders, is shutting down. On Friday, the startup announced via a blog post it had made the decision to “wind down operations” of the app launched over a year ago, saying that the market opportunity wasn’t big enough to warrant continued investment. The team had rapidly iterated … Read more

Instagram’s co-founders are shutting down their Artifact news app

Artifact, the news app created by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, is shutting down just a year after launch. The app used an AI-driven approach to suggest news that users might like to read, but it seems it didn’t catch on with enough people for the Artifact team to continue making the app. … Read more

Artifact takes on X and Threads with new Posts feature

Artifact, a platform built by Instagram’s co-founders, is launching the ability for users to make posts. Up until now, the platform has been an aggregator for news and links, but is now becoming more of a social network by allowing users to create posts. Artifact co-founder and CTO Mike Krieger announced the launch of the … Read more

The Instagram Founders’ Information App Artifact Is Really an AI Play

The invasion of chatbots has disrupted the plans of numerous companies, together with some that had been engaged on that very expertise for years (taking a look at you, Google). However not Artifact, the information discovery app created by Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Once I talked to Systrom this week about his startup—a … Read more

Artifact Information App Now Lets Customers Flag ‘Clickbait’

There are many methods to put in writing a headline, lots of them unhealthy. Take this text, for example. It’d’ve been titled: Meta’s Obvious Firing Goof You’ll By no means Imagine What This App Lets Customers Do or Rising App Wages Struggle Towards Faux Information and even This Fashionable Information App Empowers Customers With One … Read more