A better ChatGPT app: Poe wants to build the universal AI messaging client
Poe isn't a chatbot - it's an app for all your chatbots. | Image: Poe ChatGPT is a remarkable piece of technology and a really crappy consumer product. Load OpenAI's revolutionary chatbot at any given time, and after a long wait, you'll be greeted with... well, likely as not, a message saying ChatGPT is over capacity and you can't use it anyway. It's slow even in the best of situations, and its blocky white-and-gray interface doesn't exactly scream high design. There's not even a mobile app.
Adam D'Angelo, the CEO of Quora, sees that as something of an opportunity. Since last summer, just before the chatbot craze swept the tech industry, Quora has been feverishly working on an app called Poe that D'Angelo says he hopes can make bots easier for everyone to use by bringing them all in one place. We have a lot...