27/02/2024
- Your weekly dose of tech updates💡
This week on Techy Tuesday:
💡A startup called Inkitt believes that it can use AI to turn the strongest of these into blockbusters and to build a new “Disney” for the 21st century around that content📝
The startup’s eponymous app lets people self-publish stories, and then, using AI and data science, it selects what it believes are the most compelling of these to tweak and subsequently distribute and sell on a second app, Galatea. Its business has already attracted 33 million users and dozens of bestsellers, the company said.
💡Instagram is working on a new feature called ‘Friend Map’🗺 which will allow users on the platform to check their friends’ location in real-time. First spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi last year on X, the new feature was confirmed by a Meta spokesperson in a reply to TechCrunch. A recent report by the publication also suggested that Friend Map is currently being tested as an internal prototype. Going by screenshots shared by Paluzzi in a post on Threads, it looks like Instagram users will be able to choose who can see their location and share it with followers who are following them back.
💡 FlowGPT is, as defined by the company, an “ecosystem” for GenAI-powered apps — a collection of infrastructure and creator tools tied to a marketplace and community of GenAI app users. Users get a feed of apps and app collections recommended to them based on trending categories (e.g., “Creative,” “Programming,” “Game”, “Academic”), while creators get options for customizing the behavior — and appearance — of GenAI apps. Users interact with GenAI apps on FlowGPT through a chat window that’s not dissimilar to ChatGPT, with options to type in prompts, share links to conversations or tip individual app creators. Each app has a creator-provided description along with the date it was created, how many times it’s been used and the model the creator recommends to power it.
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