Bot creators now have a new way to make money with Poe, the Quora-owned AI chatbot platform. On Monday, the company introduced a revenue model that allows creators to set a per-message price for their bots so they can make money whenever a user messages them. The addition follows an earlier October 2023 of a … Read more
Quora is back at it, raising funding for the first time in nearly seven years. The questions and answers website nabbed $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which will be used to power the growth of Poe, Quora’s AI chat platform. What makes Quora’s AI chatbots different from the rest of the pack? Quora is … Read more
Screenshot: OpenAI Part of OpenAI’s success comes through funding from a multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft. It wasn’t long before the aging tech behemoth launched its own AI-powered tools in the form of a new chat feature on its unloved search engine Bing. Bing Chat (launched renamed Microsoft co-pilot) launched in February 2023. In its first … Read more
Sam Altman, OpenAI cofounder and CEO, revealed Chat GPT-4 Turbo at the company’s first-ever developer conference called DevDay in San Francisco Monday. The new model supports 128,000 tokens of context, equivalent to a 300-page book and sixteen times ChatGPT-4’s context limits. I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs | Future Tech Altman also … Read more
The Big Picture 1932’s Murders in the Rue Morgue, an adaption of the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name, is an overlooked but delightfully morbid entry in Universal Pictures’ early horror catalog. The film captures the essence of Poe’s psychologically terrifying work and boasts visuals inspired by the German Expressionist movement. Bela Lugosi’s … Read more
Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher has so many references to the story’s author, Edgar Allan Poe, you’d be hard pressed to miss the more overt ones. Some are character names, others are narrative parallels, some are embedded in prop design. But there are some references so tiny, so hidden, we can’t … Read more
The six terrible children of Roderick Usher don’t actually feature in Edgar Allan Poe’s original story, but they’re all main characters in Mike Flanagan’s Netflix adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher, with names tightly linked to characters created by the macabre author. Played by many Flanagan faces you may have seen before, … Read more
Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of the House of Usher isn’t an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story. It is instead a reimagining of the entire Poe oeuvre, a resurrected corpus operis with all the bodies laid out on the table, given new, feverish life inside the framework of Roderick Usher’s legacy of doom. Working … Read more