Vine is being rebooted as 'diVine,' a short-form video app that bans AI content

SAN FRANCISCO — Vine is back — sort of.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey revealed to TechCrunch this week he has been quietly funding a reboot of the beloved six-second video platform. The relaunched app, called diVine, launched in beta this week with more than 100,000 archived videos from the original app.

Vine, which once boasted more than 200 million active monthly users, shut down in 2017 as Twitter, now known as X, struggled financially. The app's six-second looping videos helped launch the careers of numerous internet personalities and became a cultural phenomenon that eventually led to video platforms like TikTok.

The new project was spearheaded by Evan Henshaw-Plath, known online as Rabble, an early Twitter employee who worked with Dorsey. He spent months extracting videos fro