The AI industry is shifting from a one user one model paradigm to collective environments where humans and multiple systems think and create together. Quora’s decision to expand Poe with group chats illustrates this transition with unusual clarity. Up to two hundred participants can now collaborate inside a single conversation, drawing on more than two hundred AI models ranging from text to video and audio generation. At YourNewsClub, we see this as a sign that the market is searching for formats where AI acts not as a standalone assistant but as a participant in shared work.
The timing is notable. Just days earlier, ChatGPT began piloting group chats across several Asian and Oceanic markets. Poe, however, takes a broader route. Users can combine models like Claude 4.5 Sonnet, GPT 5.1, Gemini 2.5, Sora 2 Pro, ElevenLabs or o3 Deep Research in one thread, forming setups that previously belonged to professional studios. Owen Radner, who studies digital infrastructure as a new type of information power grid, points out that this approach turns the chat into a small ecosystem where computational flows matter as much as human interaction.
Quora highlights a range of use cases, from travel planning with multi search models to collaborative mood boards, brainstorming sessions, quiz games and shared research. Conversation history synchronizes across devices, and user built bots can join groups alongside people. Essentially, Poe constructs a lightweight multi agent environment where humans and models work side by side. For YourNewsClub, this marks an early prototype of future collaborative AI workspaces.
But new capabilities introduce new fault lines. Maya Renn, whose work focuses on emerging ethics of computation, stresses that scaling group features intensifies questions of trust. When dozens of people interact with dozens of models, platforms must provide clearer rules around data handling, access boundaries and the memory capabilities of each system. This pushes companies from simple chat logic toward architectures that demand stronger privacy guarantees and more transparent governance.
The long term implications may be profound. Today these group chats resemble enhanced messaging. Tomorrow they could evolve into default tools for team collaboration, education, project management and even decision making processes inside organizations. At Your News Club, we interpret this shift as the beginning of a new communication format where AI no longer functions as a query tool but as a co-participant in discussions.
Participants will need to adjust accordingly. Users should be mindful of the information they bring into shared environments. Bot creators will need to design agents capable of operating gracefully in collective settings. And platforms must demonstrate that they can manage the complexity they are enabling. If this evolution continues, the defining question of the coming years may not be “Which AI do you use” but “In what digital collective does your AI operate alongside you.”