Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, is investing $300 million value of money and fairness within the chat app.
As a part of the deal, xAI’s chatbot, Grok, will likely be distributed through Telegram and built-in into apps accessible on Telegram’s platform for one 12 months.
Durov mentioned Telegram will earn 50% of the income from xAI subscriptions which are bought via the app.
Earlier this 12 months, xAI made the Grok chatbot accessible to Telegram’s premium users. The brand new partnership seems like Grok would possibly now be accessible to all customers.
A video posted by Durov on X recommended that Grok could be pinned on prime of chats throughout the app, and customers may 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.