Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you build custom social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open-ended research tool.

The company this week said it’s added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that lets users ask it for information and news spreading across the broader Bluesky social network, nicknamed the Atmosphere. This includes not only Bluesky, but any app that integrates with the underlying AT Protocol.

Bluesky’s user growth has slowed over the past eight months — the social network saw its user base double to 40 million last October, within just a year, but it now reports around 45.6 million registered accounts. So the company has been looking to develop tools and services that could allow it to grow its user base, and potentially, monetize it.

Attie, launched in March, is a separate product by Bluesky that lets users design their own...

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