Quora's Poe extends the platform's capabilities with multibot chat and enterprise solutions

Poe, an AI-powered chatbot platform launched by question and answer site Quora, is actively growing, aiming to become a comprehensive ecosystem for conversational AI.

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With a recent $75 million funding round, Poe is rolling out new features, including "multi-bot chat." This allows users to simultaneously interact with multiple AI models, such as GPT-4, Claude, and DALL-E 3, in a single dialogue. Poe provides contextual recommendations and the ability to quickly summon the necessary bots.

The platform has also introduced monetisation tools for chatbot developers, including the ability to set a price per message and receive a share of Poe's revenue. This is aimed at creating a new class of bot engineers earning exclusively from the platform.

In addition, Poe plans to launch enterprise solutions that allow organisations to manage the platform for their employees. This reflects the company's ambition to become an "app shop" or "web browser" for the growing conversational AI ecosystem.

However, Poe has a number of challenges to overcome, including ensuring that the experience of using chatbots is sufficiently differentiated, moderating content and maintaining the quality of the bots it creates. The high cost of large language models is also a definite challenge to the platform's economic model.

Nevertheless, Poe's rapid development and new funding demonstrates significant interest in the emerging chatbot economy. If Quora can build a trusted network of bot developers and deliver a quality user experience, the company has a chance to become a key platform in the era of generative AI.

Source: VentureBeat