Poe is Quora’s cross-platform, subscription-based collection of AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o. They just released a new tool called Previews that lets users make interactive apps right in chats with chatbots.
When Poe users type things like “Analyze the information in this report and turn it into an easy-to-understand and interactive presentation to help me understand it,” Previews lets them make data visualizations, games, and even drum machines. The apps can be made with more than one chatbot, like Meta’s Llama 3 and GPT-4o. They can use information from uploaded files, like movies, and send a link to anyone who wants to use them.
Previews are a lot like Anthropic’s new Artifacts, which are specialized workspaces where users can change and add to code and documents that were made by AI. But Artifacts only works with Anthropic’s models, while Previews lets any robot send HTML output, along with CSS and JavaScript features for now (and more in the future, Quora promises).
As per Quora, Previews works best with chatbots that are “very good” at writing, such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro.
This writer couldn’t try making an app with Previews because they have to pay $20 a month for Poe’s premium plan. The few demos on the web, though, are pretty much what they say they are. They are simple demos made by the Poe team.
Previews comes out at an odd time for Poe. Last month, Wired did an investigation and found that Poe let users download paywalled news stories whenever they wanted. Wired says that it used Quora’s built-in Assistant chatbot to get copies of stories from outlets like The New York Times and The Atlantic.
It was argued by Quora, and it still does, that it was wrong.
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