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Poke Wants to Make AI Agents as Simple as Sending a Text — No App Required
Poke is a new startup building AI agent infrastructure delivered entirely through SMS and messaging platforms, letting users delegate real-world tasks — research, scheduling, purchasing, information retrieval — without installing an app or setting up an account beyond a phone number. The company's thesis is that the most durable consumer AI interface is not the chat interface that has dominated the space since ChatGPT's launch, but the message thread.