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On January 11, Poe, a generative AI chat assistant aggregation platform, received $75 million (about $530 million) with a valuation of $500 million (about RMB 3.58 billion). This round of investment was made by Andreessen Horowitz, a16z and others.
Poe aggregates and mirrors almost all the well-known text, image, audio, and video chat assistants currently on the market, such as ChatGPT, Claude, GPT-4, Bard, Google-PaLM, LLaMA 2, DALL·E 3, Stable Difusion, etc. Poe adopts a monthly and annual charging model, and it is very affordable to use all the chat assistants on the platform by subscribing.
Interestingly, Poe co-founder and CEO Adam D'Angelo is one of OpenAI's current board members.
Last November, after OpenAI's CEO was suddenly dismissed, Adam was suspected of being the mastermind because his Poe and ChatGPT had serious conflicts of interest.
Later, Adam served as a member of OpenAI's board of directors again, and the rumor was dispelled.
Poe was founded in early 2023, when ChatGPT had not yet opened its API, and it was not easy for multiple regions around the world to use the product. So, Adam smelled a business opportunity, got the internal API and created Poe.
At the same time, with the help of his identity as the co-founder of Quora (the American version of Zhihu), he began to promote Poe on a large scale in the community and soon gained hundreds of thousands of seed users.
After nearly a year of hard work, Poe's platform has accumulated millions of users and more than 400 million independent visitors per month, making it one of the world's largest generative AI assistant aggregation platforms.
Poe platform display
In terms of products, Poe focuses on two modes: free and paid, and supports multiple usage methods such as Android, iOS, Windows desktop, and Web.
Free products include: GPT-3.5, Playground-v2, ScholarlyBot, MultiModalPoe, etc., as well as some exclusive robots for academic research, education, and art. Basically, as long as the original manufacturer does not charge, Poe will also provide it for free, which is very humane.
Paid products include: GPT-4, DALL·E 3 and other official paid robots, as well as domain-specific robots fine-tuned based on these models. Poe is also charged, but the price is much cheaper than it.
To help users quickly find a chatbot that suits them, Poe provides a robot search function.
You can search by keywords such as official, popular, new, music, image generation, programming, features, etc., and custom searches are also supported.
Yesterday, OpenAI officially opened the “Custom GPT Store” feature, allowing GPT developers to share their robots with global users and get paid.
In response to this move, Poe also launched a developer version. Adam also said that most of the newly raised $75 million will be used to reward Poe developers to create more efficient and practical robots.
Judging from the introduction of the Poe developer version and the robot creation process, there is almost no difference from OpenAI's custom GPT and store.
There are two main creation methods: 1) Visual, code-free, one-click creation. For example, first select the robot's appearance, enter a name, a robot description, select an underlying model (such as GPT-4), upload exclusive data (supports txt, pdf, docx, and html formats), optimize the dialogue instructions, and then click Create to complete.
2) The second type is API development, which is more suitable for professional developers. They can call Poe's GPT-3.5-Turbo, Claude-instant or other open source large model APIs for free to develop robots in specific fields.
Operation and revenue model: When developing robots on Poe, users do not need to bear the cost of AI computing power, product distribution, and operation costs. They only need to provide creative ideas and data, and Poe will take care of everything else.
When users use the robot you developed, they can get rewards from the Poe platform. If they subscribe to Poe because of using your robot, they will also receive an additional referral fee. The current rewards for Poe developers are very generous.
