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 co-founders of Instagram Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger,[2] the app is available for iOS and Android. The app's name is a portmanteau of the words "articles", "artificial intelligence", and "fact".[2] The app shut down in January 2024 as a result of low interest.
History
Nokto, Inc. was established on March 3, 2022, as a foreign stock company in California, with its headquarters in San Francisco.[3]