Q&A platform “Quora” has made public its new AI chatbot app, Poe, which allows users to ask questions and receive answers from a variety of AI chatbots, including those from ChatGPT maker OpenAI and other companies like Anthropic.
Beyond allowing users to experiment with new AI technologies, the company claims that Poe’s content will eventually help to evolve Quora itself.
Poe’s mobile app was first announced by Quora in December, but it required an invite to try it out. With the app’s public release on Friday, anyone can now use it. For the time being, it is only available to iOS users, but Quora says it will be available on other platforms in a few months.
In an announcement, the company explained that it decided to launch Poe as a standalone product independent of Quora because of how quickly AI developments and changes are now taking place. There will, however, be some links between the Q&A site and Poe.
To use Poe — which stands for “Platform for Open Exploration” — iOS users will have to create an account that’s verified with both a phone number and email address. They can then switch between three different AI chatbots available at launch.
These include the general knowledge chatbots Sage, Claude and Dragonfly. Both Sage and Dragonfly are powered by OpenAI while Claude is powered by Anthropic technology. All have their own limitations at present. For instance, Sage and Claude don’t have knowledge of events after 2021, and Dragonfly may refuse to answer some questions. All three have been known to make incorrect statements — which is another reason why Quora itself isn’t immediately integrating Poe into its service.
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