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Today we are officially launching the Poe API to all developers. Details in thread below! 
As we mentioned in our initial launch of Poe back in December, from the beginning of Poe, our intent has been to provide technology to enable broad access to LLM-based services, analogous to how the web browser enabled broad access to internet services.
We expect a diverse ecosystem of LLM-based services to soon exist, with applications like tutoring, language learning, role playing, psychological support, socializing, games, coaching, and much more.
We want Poe to enable anyone building a chat-based service on top of LLMs to easily reach a large audience around the world without having to build their own user interfaces.
In our view, Poe has been quite limited so far in that the only language models available have been from a few providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Neeva.
We now are enabling all developers to build bots on Poe, including both customers of Anthropic and OpenAI who are building more complex products on top of their models, other AI companies who are training their own language models, or anyone using LLMs from other sources.
There is an incredible explosion happening in open source LLMs. We think the democratization of the ability to train LLMs will benefit society by limiting concentration of power, and by allowing people to have the choice of models that share their values.
https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1655015012921122817
As a developer, supporting Poe is very easy. We created a simple protocol to talk to bots that runs over HTTP, and we have sample code for you to get started. We also have integrations built with Langchain and LlamaIndex.
Benefits that come from building an AI application on Poe include: distribution to millions of people already using Poe, native applications across all platforms (Android is almost ready) for the best user experience, persistent history, cross-platform sync, ...
... and other supporting features so you can focus just on what's unique to your application. We provide easy tools for people to share the output from your bot to drive growth, and feedback from users (likes and dislikes) that you can use to improve your product.
We will also be enabling monetization in the future. On top of all this, by building on Poe you will be attaching yourself to a platform that is growing quickly and will continue to get better at a rapid pace.
We are heavily investing in adding features and will be prioritizing the top requests from developers. You can get started by reading the documentation on our Github at github.com/poe-platform/a… .
Please remember that our API is targeted at developers who know how to write at least a small amount of code. For those who don’t, we have a separate way to create a bot on Poe based on a simple prompt, which is accessible at poe.com/create_bot.
Thank you all and please share any feedback. We are very excited to see what this platform enables now that it is open to the world!
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