Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday mentioned Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, is investing $300 million price of money and fairness within the chat app.
As a part of the deal, xAI’s chatbot, Grok, might be distributed through Telegram and built-in into apps out there on Telegram’s platform for one yr.
Durov mentioned Telegram will earn 50% of the income from xAI subscriptions which are bought by the app.
Earlier this yr, xAI made the Grok chatbot out there to Telegram’s premium customers. The new partnership appears like Grok would possibly now be out there to all customers.
A video posted by Durov on X urged that Grok will be pinned on high of chats throughout the app, and customers may also ask inquiries to Grok from the search bar. Notably, Meta has additionally built-in Meta AI into the search bar for Instagram and WhatsApp.
The video additionally exhibits that it is possible for you to to make use of Grok for writing solutions, summarizing chats, hyperlinks and paperwork, and creating stickers. Grok will supposedly additionally assist reply questions for companies and help with moderation.
