There are too many options—this one has this, that one has that.
With so many choices, each with its own features, consumers can be left in a limbo, where they're stuck in deciding what to use. Since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT and others followed suit, the market is quickly saturated with a lot of Large Language Models that offer something different.
Quora makes it a bit simpler for users, with a tool called 'Poe.'
Poe, which "unified chat interface to all AI," is essentially dashboard where users can "100 of the best text, image, video, and audio models from leading AI companies, along with millions of bots built on top of them, all in one place."
The idea is to create an experience where everything is in one place because in many use cases, a single workflow involves the use of multiple models made by different companies.
Poe is like aggregating the options, allowing users to choose what to use depending on their needs.
Now, Poe is getting an upgrade.
Introducing Poe Apps: a new, easy way to create and use visual interfaces into any combination of the 100+ text, image, video, and audio models on Poe. (1/5) pic.twitter.com/uGtuDi21pI
— Poe (@poe_platform) February 25, 2025
In a blog post:
"Poe Apps can run side-by-side with chat, or be entirely visual."
"Thanks to the integration with Poe, when these apps need to make potentially-expensive model calls, they will use the user’s existing points, so that as a creator, you don’t have to risk ending up with huge API bills, or having downtime when your app hits limits."
We created Poe Apps to support AI use cases where chat is not as good as a visual interface. This might be true for workflows, games, quizzes, multimedia generation, document editing, or many other applications we hope you’ll create. (2/5) pic.twitter.com/BQ7u2msybw
— Poe (@poe_platform) February 25, 2025
Poe, Quora’s platform, brings multiple AI models together in one place.
With Poe Apps, users can build visual interfaces—essentially, apps—on top of any combination of these models.
The new App Creator tool lets users describe the app they want to create, specifying preferred models like OpenAI's o3-mini reasoning model or Google's Veo 2 video generator, for example.
This App Creator is powered by Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and that it's able to translate the description into code for the app interface along with custom logic expressed in JavaScript.
Poe Apps can run side-by-side with Poe’s chatbot window or be entirely visual, and their underlying code is exposed for manual adjusting and fine-tuning.
Quora created a few example apps, including an app that transforms photos into 3D anime-style art using OpenAI’s GPT-4o and more.
All of this is uniquely possible on Poe because a wide variety of AI companies have made their models available here, and we pass along potentially-expensive inference costs to users, so that you as the creator of an application don’t have to worry about covering those costs.…
— Poe (@poe_platform) February 25, 2025
Poe Apps can be shared with other Poe users, but initially, this can only be done through the web interface of Poe.
It's worth noting that each time users' app uses an AI model, that model will draw users' point balance with Poe.
At this time, free users receive a daily point allotment, while premium Poe subscribers get flexible daily or monthly point packages.
"This is an early launch and we have a long roadmap ahead to give creators even more power, including the ability to earn money directly from their apps," the company said.
"We are excited to see what you all create. And we are excited to see how much better we are able to make Poe Apps as the models continue to get better at writing code this year."