Instagram co-founders launch Artifact, a text-based version of TikTok

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have launched ‘Artifact’, a text-based version of TikTok which will use machine learning to understand users’ interests.

Artifact is a personalised news feed application, whose name represents the combination of articles, facts and artificial intelligence (AI), reports The Verge.

The application opened up its waiting list to the public on Tuesday, and is available for both Android and iOS devices.

The application opens to a feed of popular articles selected from a curated range of publications, including top news outlets to small-scale blogs about niche topics.