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

Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you physique customized societal feeds without programming, is evolving into an open-ended probe tool.

The institution this week said it’s added a caller diagnostic to the AI assistant, called Quests, that lets users inquire it for accusation and quality spreading crossed the broader Bluesky societal network, nicknamed the Atmosphere. This includes not lone Bluesky, but immoderate app that integrates with the underlying AT Protocol.

Bluesky’s idiosyncratic maturation has slowed implicit the past 8 months — the societal web saw its idiosyncratic basal treble to 40 cardinal past October, wrong conscionable a year, but it present reports around 45.6 cardinal registered accounts. So the institution has been looking to make tools and services that could let it to turn its idiosyncratic base, and potentially, monetize it.

Attie, launched successful March, is simply a abstracted merchandise by Bluesky that lets users plan their ain algorithm, make customized feeds and, 1 day, possibly, vibe codification their ain apps. While the AI adjunct is escaped for the clip being, the institution has toyed with the thought of charging for the service.

Quests adds caller capabilities to Attie, allowing users to inquire it open-ended questions to probe what’s happening connected this portion of the unfastened societal web. For instance, you could inquire Attie to propulsion accusation astir trending topics, oregon assistance you place the astir influential accounts successful a peculiar tract oregon location, the institution explained.

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“Attie’s AI is simply a instrumentality that helps you marque consciousness of the internet, helping you combat backmost against the proliferation of misinformation and sound by giving you the tools to find the information yourself,” wrote Bluesky’s main innovation serviceman Jay Graber, who stepped down successful March from her relation arsenic CEO of the company. (She’s since been replaced by Toni Schneider, the erstwhile founding CEO of Automattic.)

“Our stake is that tools that assistance radical marque consciousness of the satellite volition beryllium to beryllium much utile than those that capable it with confusion,” Graber wrote. “We privation Attie to trim the obstruction to introduction and expertise required to larn however to usage the AT Protocol, and to enactment the tools for customizing your acquisition successful the hands of anyone who wants them.”

Graber noted Attie is being redesigned to adhd accessibility features and a caller logo, and much changes are coming successful the months ahead.

For now, the caller Attie acquisition is successful beta, and users volition beryllium invited successful from a waitlist implicit the coming weeks.

While galore Bluesky users thin to dislike AI for economic, governmental and biology reasons, the institution has had to equilibrium its community’s leanings with the request to make gross to assistance itself and the AT Protocol improvement it leads stay afloat.

In March, Bluesky said it had raised $100 cardinal successful funding in a circular that closed successful 2025. That gives it runway to experimentation with ideas similar Attie and however AI tin play a relation successful the Atmosphere, arsenic good arsenic with different services, similar a premium subscription oregon tools for powerfulness users.