Durov and Musk partner to bring Grok to Telegram

Telegram's founder, Pavel Durov, announced a new partnership with Elon Musk, which aims to bring Grok AI to the messenger later this summer. In his post, Durov said that the one-year partnership will get "the best AI technology on the market" to over one billion Telegram users.

A promo video attached to the post also revealed what features Grok will bring to Telegram. The service will be integrated into the search bar, allowing you to ask Grok about something without switching apps. Customers will also get a dedicated chat with Grok with a threaded experience to keep different topics and conversations separate.

Smart Text Editing with Grok will let you generate and rewrite text, summarize long messages, entire chats, and documents, get insights about links, and more. Also, Grok AI will be able to moderate group chats, run business chats, and fact-check posts in channels. Of course, no modern AI goes without generative "creativity," so Grok in Telegram will be able to generate static and animated stickers and avatars.

Durov revealed that his partnership with xAI will secure $300 million in cash and equity. The two companies will also equally split revenue from xAI subscriptions sold within Telegram.

Pavel Durov and Telegram are known for pedaling online privacy, but details about the privacy aspect of the Telegram-xAI partnership are currently unknown. When a user asked whether Telegram plans to send data to xAI for training, Durov responded, "No, this has not been discussed."

In another post, Durov announced that Telegram Premium now has over 15 million paid subscribers, and this number doubled in just one year.

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