Our content series gives you the lowdown on what’s been happening in the world of product this week and what it could mean for product professionals. This week, we're looking at Spotify Wrapped 2024 getting backlash, Meta looking to compete with Bluesky, and Atlassian launching a new database.
OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription. The AI organisation announced ChatGPT Pro, a new $200-per-month subscription tier that provides unlimited access to all of OpenAI’s models, including the full version of its o1 “reasoning” model, which is capable of delivering complex problems in a humanlike way. "ChatGPT Pro provides a way for researchers, engineers, and other individuals who use research-grade intelligence daily to accelerate their productivity and be at the cutting edge of advancements in AI." The company said in a statement. Time will tell whether the steep price tag will steer users away from OpenAI, and towards other competitors in the market.
Now, there are multiple apps to rule them all. In the answer to competitors getting into the product management tooling space, Atlassian launched Confluence databases. Designed to drive consistency and visibility across teams, Confluence databases allow users to store information in a central location that can be shared anywhere in Confluence. With automatic syncing, Confluence databases also make it easy for teams to access the most up-to-date shared information, ensuring alignment and reducing duplication.
Find your listener data. Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform, such as song and artist recommendations, the company announced in a developer blog post on Wednesday. The company appears to be limiting third-party developers from building AI apps using data from Spotify listeners. The changes are designed to prevent developers from scraping data from its platform that could be used to create competitive AI music recommendation models.
In other Spotify news, this year's Spotify Wrapped has come under criticism from many lovers of the notorious yearly recap. Many users have complained about its lack of personality, inaccurate artist rankings, and an overall anti-climatic experience. Consumers far and wide flocked to Spotify's Community section to express their concerns, with many blaming this year's underwhelming recap on an over-reliance on AI and mass layoffs at the music streaming giant.
Why don’t you just tell me who I should follow? Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind the social network Bluesky, Meta is developing a feature that takes inspiration from one of Bluesky’s concepts of “Starter Packs,” or hand-curated lists of suggested users that help newcomers find people to follow. Meta’s version of these Starter Packs will also suggest profiles that are “handpicked by people on Threads,” according to screenshots of the feature, which is still in development. Perhaps this is the start of a shift away from algorithms that seem to be good at showing you things you explicitly don’t want to see.
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