Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share custom AI-powered apps

Poe, Quora’s platform that brings collectively a lot of AI fashions underneath one roof, has launched a brand new functionality that lets customers construct visible interfaces — apps, primarily — on high of any mixture of fashions.

Known as Poe Apps, the characteristic permits Poe customers to explain the app they need to create within the new App Creator software. Descriptions can embody mentions of particular fashions they need the app to make use of — e.g. OpenAI’s o3-mini, or Google’s video-generating Veo 2 — or broader, extra basic specs.

App Creator, which is powered by Anthropic’s lately launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet, interprets the outline into code for the app interface together with customized logic expressed in JavaScript. Poe Apps can run side-by-side with Poe’s chatbot window or be fully visible, and their underlying code is uncovered for handbook adjusting and fine-tuning.

Quora created a number of instance apps, together with an app that transforms images into 3D anime-style artwork utilizing OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Black Forest Labs‘ Flux-Professional-1.1. One other instance app removes undesirable objects from photos, leveraging Bria’s Bria-Eraser mannequin.

Poe Apps could be shared with different Poe customers, solely on the internet for now (iOS and Android help is on the way in which, Quora says). Every time an app makes use of an AI mannequin, it’ll draw from a consumer’s level stability with Poe. Free customers obtain a day by day level allotment, whereas customers subscribed to Poe’s $5 per thirty days premium tier get versatile day by day or month-to-month level packages.

In a weblog put up, Quora, which famous that App Creator is accessible at a lowered early-access value for a restricted time, hinted at attainable app monetization choices.

“That is an early launch and now we have an extended roadmap forward to present creators much more energy, together with the power to earn cash straight from their apps,” the corporate wrote. “We’re excited to see what you all create. And we’re excited to see how a lot better we’re in a position to make Poe Apps because the fashions proceed to get higher at writing code this yr.”

Poe Apps, which develop on the internet apps characteristic Poe launched final July, are loads like Anthropic’s Artifacts and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Canvas instruments: devoted workspaces the place customers can edit and add to AI-generated content material like code and paperwork. Whereas the apps all these instruments can produce are reasonably restricted, they definitely display how far fashions’ programming capabilities have come.