... combination of AI and human writing to offer personalized advice and assess compatibility between the user and any friends they add. The free app, which offers some paid features, has about 4.3 million monthly active users, according to SensorTower data. The previously unreported acquisition closed this spring, Midjourney said. It declined to disclose financial terms. This is big: CEO @banu_guler is now Chief Design Officer at Midjourney. Comment from Alpaysh(@alpaysh): incredible! Comment from Oluwole Zacheus(@emmadagold): This ...

... that no other app comes close to. It leads the world in addictiveness at 87% DAU/MAU and stickiness at 86% month-one retention, all while having 2.7B monthly users, the most of any non-preinstalled app. A new SensorTower breakdown of the top 25 apps by these metrics reveals some surprising patterns. There are now 15 apps with over a billion users, and Google and Meta own 12 of them between them. Telegram is the standout outsider here ...