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Poly

The Intelligent File Browser

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Poly is an intelligent file browser and cloud hosting service for storing, browsing, and organizing personal files and media. It is designed to help users locate content through natural language search across images, concepts, phrases, colors, and faces, including searches within individual files for a specific scene, page, or clip. Users can ask questions in an AI chat to find files, transcribe video interviews, and work with content across thousands of files in a single conversation.

Features include Desktop Sync for accessing and syncing files in the local file system, Version History, Public Sharing, Shared Drives with permissions, flexible viewing modes, automatic tagging, folder-level analysis and image generation, notes and summaries, and a Hide from AI option. It supports offline use on web and desktop, with encryption on device, in transit, and in the cloud. Collaborative Conversations are listed as coming soon.

Poly is available on web and desktop and is currently in beta, with access offered through a waitlist.

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