Reddit, Digg Co-Founders Are Teaming Up to Revive Digg Using AI

Reddit Inc. co-founder Alexis Ohanian has teamed up with former business rival Kevin Rose to relaunch Digg Inc., a platform once dubbed “the homepage of the internet.”

Rose, who co-founded Digg in 2004 as a social news sharing service, approached longtime competitor Ohanian last year with a pitch: The two could use artificial intelligence to create an alternative to “toxic” and “hostile” social platforms. The new Digg.com will aim to lure back users nostalgic for its earliest interface and an internet that didn’t amplify the loudest voice in the room, he said.