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AI-powered personalized news discovery
As of 30 August 2026, Artifact is free to use. Artifact is an AI-powered news and content discovery app created by Instagram co-founders. Softwr lists it under News. Artifact is made by Artifact Labs, launched in 2022, available on iOS, Android.
Overview
What Artifact does
Artifact is an AI-powered news and content discovery app created by Instagram co-founders. It uses machine learning to personalize your news feed based on your reading habits and interests. The app summarizes articles, highlights key points, and filters out clickbait. Artifact combines the best of social curation with AI recommendations for a smarter news experience.
What people use it for
- News consumption
- Content discovery
- Staying informed
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Artifact.
- Wound down in early April 2024. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger closed it, saying the market opportunity was not large enough to keep investing
- Yahoo acquired the personalisation technology and folded it into Yahoo News, so the app itself is not coming back
- The founders stayed only in an advisory capacity through the transition
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Pricing
What Artifact costs
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Free
Free
- AI-powered recommendations
- Article summaries
- Social features
- Personalized feed
Capabilities
Features
AI recommendations
Article summaries
Clickbait detection
Social sharing
Topic following
Social sharing
Integration with Social sharing
Ios support
Available on ios
Android support
Available on android
Behind it
Who makes Artifact
- Company
- Artifact Labs
- Based in
- San Francisco, CA
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