
Poe, Quora’s app that brings collectively completely different AI fashions into one platform, is launching group chat performance. The corporate introduced on Monday that customers worldwide will have the ability to begin group chats with as much as 200 different folks, then collaborate throughout greater than 200 AI fashions — together with textual content, picture, video, and audio mills — inside a single dialog.
The launch comes simply days after OpenAI’s ChatGPT started piloting group chats in markets like Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. The transfer might doubtlessly remodel the chatbot from a one-on-one AI interplay right into a collaborative house the place customers can even have interaction with associates, household, or colleagues.
Quora says the addition of group chats to Poe might allow new kinds of interactive experiences for AI customers. As an example, the corporate means that households or associates might use the function to plan a visit collectively utilizing Gemini 2.5’s search performance and o3 Deep Analysis. Groups might additionally work collectively to brainstorm pictures for temper boards utilizing the assorted picture fashions on Poe, or teams might play trivia video games collectively utilizing one of many quiz bots on the app.
The group chats will enable customers to work collectively utilizing any mixture of AI fashions or creator-made bots, together with fashions like Claude 4.5 Sonnet, ElevenLabs v3, ElevenLabs Music, Nano Banana, GPT-5.1, Kling 2.5 Turbo Professional, o3 Deep Analysis, Sora 2 Professional, and Veo 3.1, amongst others.
Poe customers can begin a bunch chat from the app’s residence display on the web site at poe.com. As you chat, the chat historical past will sync in actual time throughout your units, so you possibly can begin chatting on desktop after which transfer to a cellular machine with out shedding the thread.
Quora developed the function over the previous six months and plans to proceed to enhance group chats within the weeks following its launch, primarily based on consumer suggestions.
“We expect the house of potential group interactions mediated by AI and collaboration alternatives with AI is huge and at the moment under-explored,” the corporate shared in its announcement. “The product we’re opening up immediately additionally permits anybody to create a customized bot on Poe and share it for others to make use of in their very own teams, and we’re excited to see the use circumstances that everybody discovers.”
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