By Sachin Mohan · AIM Media House
The days of chatting with an AI alone are most likely coming to an end. On Monday, Quora's Poe launched a group chat functionality that allows up to 200 people to collaborate across more than 200 AI models, including text, image, video, and audio, all within a single conversation.
This couldn't be more perfectly timed since it has only been a few days since OpenAI started pilot testing its own group chats in a handful of markets across Asia. They want to make sure that AI isn’t just a tool for individuals, but a collaborative space for friends, teams, and entire communities.
The concept sounds simple. Bring multiple people and multiple AI models into one conversation. But the execution is anything but.
Users can now start group chats from Poe's home screen, invite up to 199 other people, and then tap into any combination of AI models or creator-made bots like Claude 4.5 Sonnet , GPT-5.1, ElevenLabs v3, Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro, o3 Deep Research, Sora 2 Pro, Veo 3.1, and dozens of others. The chat history syncs in real time across devices.
You start a conversation on desktop and continue it on mobile. The thread never breaks and the context never gets lost. It's the kind of seamless experience that sounds obvious until you realize how hard it is to build at scale. Building something this smooth isn’t easy.
Quora’s team spent half a year making sure Poe could handle 200 people chatting with 200 different AI bots at once, without the whole thing falling over. The behind-the-scenes engineering is very critical and it makes the result feel easy to use. Why Does It Matter? On the surface, group chat is a feature.
In practice, it's a rethinking of what AI platforms are for. For the past two years, AI chatbots have been glorified search engines with personality. You ask a question. The AI responds, and it goes on and on. Even the best implementations, ChatGPT , Claude, Gemini , have remained fundamentally transactional.
One user, one AI, one interaction.
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