Telegram has struck a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, to distribute the latter’s chatbot, Grok, through Telegram and combine it into apps out there on the chat app’s platform for one 12 months.
xAI pays $300 million in money and fairness to the chat app as a part of the deal, Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov said on Tuesday.
Durov stated Telegram may even earn 50% of the income from xAI subscriptions bought by the app.
Earlier this 12 months, xAI made the Grok chatbot out there to Telegram’s premium users. It appears Grok may now be made out there to all customers.
A video posted by Durov on X advised that Grok could be pinned on high 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 on 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.
Observe: This story was corrected to make clear that xAI is paying Telegram $300 million for distributing Grok.