In early February and after several months of preliminary testing, Quora decided to open access to Poe, his metachatbot, to all users who wanted to try it out. The only significant limitation in this sense is that since then the service could only be accessed from its application, which is only available for iOS. So if you have an iPhone, until now you could download it and use its various chatbots without limit.

As we already told you at the time and unlike services such as ChatGPT and the Bing chatbot, in this case we will not find Quora’s own technology or a partner, but with an application that offers us access to various chatbots, with which we can conduct independent conversations (conversations do not interfere with each other). So from the same interface we can make the same query to several AIs (each in its own section, yes) and compare the different answers.

Initially, when it was released to everyone (well, everyone with an iPhone, you know what I mean), Poe had three chatbots, Sage and dragonflywhich are based on OpenAI models (gpt-3.5-turbo and text-davinci-003), and claude, an anthropic model that has been gaining considerable traction for some time now. Additionally, as Quora previously announced, their plans included continuing to add chatbots to the service in the future.

It seems that the tests must have gone well this month, because now Quora has announced some important news for the service, namely Poe is already accessible from the browser, adds several new chatbots, including GPT-4 and Claude+ (albeit with limitations), and also launches a subscription plan, paid, which is exactly related to the aforementioned Anthropic and OpenAI chatbots. Let’s take a look at these news in parts.

The most notable is undoubtedly the web access to Poe. You can now access the service from this link. The first time you do this, you’ll need to register or sign in if you’ve used it on iOS before. In the latter case, you will be able to verify that all your history of conversations with chatbots has been synchronized, so you will be able to restore from the browser the conversations you have had so far from your mobile. And of course also vice versa, because when accessing from the application, content generated from the browser will also be displayed.

The second notable news is that six chatbots are now integrated in Poe (although two of them are based on the same model, namely gpt-3.5-turbo) because Added ChatGPT, newly introduced GPT-4 and Claude+ (Claude-1.2), a more advanced version of the Claude model that has been present in Poe since the beginning. However, access to the last two is very limited we can only do daily consultations. This is the list of chatbots we can currently find on the service, with their descriptions provided by Quora:

• claude: Usually better at many creative writing tasks, but more likely to refuse to answer questions.
• claude+: He is significantly better than Claude, especially in languages ​​other than English. It also generates more detailed answers in English than Claude.
• sage and ChatGPT: They tend to be better at languages ​​other than English and are better at programming related tasks.
• Dragonfly: tends to give shorter answers, and it may be easier to get Dragonfly to follow instructions when examples are provided in the input.
• GPT-4: This is a significant advance over ChatGPT and is the most powerful language model available today. It is particularly effective in creative writing, problem solving (such as math and physics), and following directions.

And last, but by no means least interesting, we find the premium plan announced by Quora, which will give us still limited but much wider access to both GPT-4 and Claude+. Specifically, we will be able to up to 300 monthly queries on GPT-4 and up to 1000 monthly queries on Claude+.

A very noticeable limitation, yes, is that Poe’s premium mode can only be purchased, at least for now, from Apple devices, as they currently only support payments through the App Store. However, as we can read in the web version of the service, «We are still working on implementing subscription payments on the website.«, which prompts us to think that alternative means of payment should not take too long to appear, and even less if at some point they also consider switching to Android, which I do not understand why they have not already done so .

As for the price, Poe offers two options: monthly payment, in which case there is a fee €22.99or annual payment that will €229.99. For users who are going to make moderate use and want to have access to both GPT-4 and Claude+, this seems like a pretty interesting option. However, for those who want to use more intensively, and especially if they opt for GPT-4, ChatGPT Plus seems like a more convenient choice.