Q&A site Quora announced a $75 million funding round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which will be used to boost the development of its AI chat platform, Poe, as reported by TechCrunch on January 10. It is reported that in October of this year, Quora launched the Poe creator monetization program, which allows people who create bots or prompts on Poe to earn income. According to data obtained by TechCrunch from Apptopia, Poe's mobile app was downloaded more than 250,000 times in February of last year, the first month it became available to the public. By October, Poe had surpassed 18.4 million installs and monthly active users grew to nearly 1.22 million.

PANews reported on January 10 that Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo announced that Quora had raised $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), valuing the business to $500 million. The funding will be used primarily to accelerate the growth of AI chat platform Poe, specifically through its recently launched creator monetization program to pay bot creators. Quora hit its highest ever usage rate last week — surpassing 400 million unique visitors per month. With the exception of Poe, Quora has positive cash flow, so all new money will be focused on Poe's growth. Poe's goal is to be the best way for consumers to chat with a variety of AI products, as well as the easiest way for developers to build AI chat products and reach a large audience. This includes using existing models and uploading files to create bots, or training models on your own.

PANews reported on September 15 that the venture capital company a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) released a report on its official website. Based on the traffic data of web pages and mobile apps counted by LikeWeb as of June 2023, it analyzed the generative methods currently on the market. AI products were ranked and the top 50 were displayed in the report. The top 5 on the list are OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT, chatbot website Character.AI, Google's chatbot Bard, Poe under the Q&A website Quora, and America Online QuillBot, a writing tool launched by the tutoring website Course Hero. The report also shows that ChatGPT’s monthly traffic accounts for 60% of the entire top 50 list traffic, with approximately 1.6 billion monthly visits, ranking 24th among global websites in terms of visits.

According to news from IT House on August 29, Poe, an AI chatbot platform founded by the well-known question-and-answer website Quora, recently released a series of updates, including Mac applications, the ability to have multiple conversations with the same AI robot at the same time, and access to Meta. Llama 2 model, etc. Additionally, Poe plans to launch an enterprise-grade service that would allow companies to manage platform usage for employees.