Quora raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz and plans to accelerate the growth of Poe and pay bot creators through its creator monetization program
Quora's cofounder and CEO — is also on the board of OpenAI and played a role in both firing @sama & bringing him back. Ed Newton-Rex / @ednewtonrex : When the majority of a $75M AI investment round is reserved for paying bot creators, the argument that there is money out there that could be paid to training data creators is strengthened.
We are excited to announce that Quora has raised $75M from Andreessen Horowitz. This funding will be used to accelerate the growth of Poe, and we expect the majority of it to be used to pay bot creators through our recently-launched creator monetization program. (thread) [image]
Quora raises another round. I'm surprised that they're open about valuation. ~25% of their 2019 valuation. Getting the AI halo. For a long time, it has been dead-man walking. (I say this as an early and prolific Quora user who made good friends there.) https://quorablog.quora.com…
When the majority of a $75M AI investment round is reserved for paying bot creators, the argument that there is money out there that could be paid to training data creators is strengthened.
Big news for Poe, which is another GenAI chatbot competing with ChatGPT. Also worth noting that Adam — Quora's cofounder and CEO — is also on the board of OpenAI and played a role in both firing @sama & bringing him back.