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 individuals, then collaborate throughout greater than 200 AI fashions — together with textual content, picture, video, and audio turbines — 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 area the place customers may also have interaction with associates, household, or colleagues.
Quora says the addition of group chats to Poe might allow new forms of interactive experiences for AI customers. As an illustration, the corporate means that households or associates might use the characteristic 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 varied 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 permit customers to work collectively utilizing any mixture of AI fashions or creator-made bots, together with fashions like Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Eleven Labs v3, Eleven Labs 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 gaggle chat from the app’s residence display on the web site at poe.com. As you chat, the chat historical past will sync in real-time throughout your units, so you would begin chatting on desktop after which transfer to a cellular system with out dropping the thread.
Quora developed the characteristic over the previous six months and plans to proceed to enhance group chats within the weeks following its launch, primarily based on person suggestions.
“We expect the area 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 at the moment 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 instances that everybody discovers.”
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