Poe, the AI chatbot platform created by Quora, has added a slew of updates, including a Mac app, the ability to have multiple simultaneous conversations with the same AI bot, access to Meta’s Llama 2 model, and more. It’s also planning an enterprise level so companies can manage the platform for their employees, according to an email recently sent to Poe users.
As my colleague David Pierce wrote in April, Poe’s ambition is to be the web browser for AI chatbots. Adam D’Angelo, the CEO of Poe’s parent company Quora, also sits on the board of OpenAI and thinks the number of AI bots will continue to grow. Poe wants to be the one place where you can find them all.
“I think there will be a huge ecosystem similar to what the Internet is today,” D’Angelo said recently. “I can imagine a world where most companies have a bot that they offer to the public.” With Poe, you can pay one subscription for unlimited access to all bots on its platform for $19.99 per month or $200 per year.
The new Mac app works much like Poe’s web and mobile apps, letting you chat with bots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 alongside Anthropic’s Claude. According to the email sent out this weekend announcing new product updates, there are three new bots that provide access to Meta’s (almost) open-source LLama 2 model.
In addition, Poe now allows you to have multiple conversations with the same bot, search for bots through the explore page, and use the platform in Japanese. Poe is also a platform for creating bots with its own API, and now developers can adjust the ‘temperature’ of prompts. “Higher temperature values produce more varied but less predictable responses, and lower values produce more consistent responses,” the company said.
Poe hasn’t yet shared details about the planned venture level, but you can get on the waitlist through this Google form.