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With 25M users, Bluesky gets a $1M fund to take on social media and AI


The fund will offer grants to those building on BlueSky’s open source AT Protocol.

Successful tech companies follow a typical pattern: from product to platform where other startups build businesses on top of theirs. In this case, someone else is launching a fund to help fast-growing social media site Bluesky, which now claims 25 million users. On Wednesday open source and Python big wig Peter Wang announced a new fund, with an initial $1 million war chest to advance Bluesky’s underlying tech.

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