Weekly Tech Recap: X faces mass exodus post-Trump victory, Sam Altman reignites Grok vs ChatGPT debate and more

livemint.com:

Weekly Tech Recap: With the constant bombardment of news throughout the week, it’s hard to keep track of the biggest events. To help you stay informed, we’ve compiled the Weekly Tech Recap, where we highlight the top stories that made waves in the world of technology.

This week, Bluesky and Threads emerged as major winners, as thousands of users fled X. Additionally, Sam Altman took a dig at the bias of Musk's Grok AI, WhatsApp rolled out the drafts feature for all users, and more.According to Similarweb data quoted by NBC, X garnered the most users during the US Presidential election results in November, but it was soon followed by the record 1,15,414 account deactivations the following day.

Meanwhile, X's loss has resulted in gains for its rivals, namely Meta's Threads and decentralized social media network Bluesky, both of whom have reported adding millions of users this month. In fact, Bluesky which was an invite only platform till the start of this year has now gone past 15 million all time users, which while still being a long time away from X or Threads' traffic is still a big milestone on its own.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to X owner and entrepreneur Elon Musk's repeated claims about ChatGPT's alleged left-wing bias.

In a post shared on X, Altman compared the responses from OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, to a query about choosing between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the US presidential election. Without naming Musk directly, Altman questioned which of the two AI models could truly be considered a “left-wing propaganda machine."“Which one is supposed to be the left-wing propaganda machine again?" Altman proclaimed in his X post“We are proud of how consistently chatgpt scores as the