You may now communicate with xAI’s Grok AI chatbot within your Telegram streams if you have both Telegram Premium and X Premium subscriptions. This gives you a another way to receive responses from Elon’s “non-woke” AI chatbot.
which X Corp is making significant investments in.
A further $6 billion in Series C capital was raised by xAI, which lifted its valuation to $18 billion in December of last year. With its massive “Colossus” AI data center in Memphis currently holding about 200k Nvidia H100 machines, Elon’s AI project has quickly expanded its capability.
X has also included a variety of ways for all X users to interact with its AI chatbot within the app, placing it in rivalry with other AI initiatives on capacity.
Additionally, you can now use it outside of the platform.
Although Telegram, which was developed in Russia, has gained popularity with right-wing commentators after being kicked from of big social media platforms, it is an intriguing decision to partner with them.
Thus, it appears to fit well with X’s primary user base, and it will be intriguing to observe how Grok performs in a different app.
However, it does little to refute claims that Musk and Trump support Russia and the goals of the Russian government.
To be fair, Telegram’s founders left Russia a number of years ago, and the company is headquartered in Dubai.
Additionally, considering the audience crossover, it would be an excellent approach to increase the number of users interacting with X’s AI tool, which aims to turn Grok into a revenue-generating platform.
Since X hasn’t provided many usage insights, it’s unclear how much interest Grok is generating. However, it appears that more people are referring the bot more frequently now that X users can ask Grok questions within a post stream.
UPDATE: According to Telegram, it was founded especially to shield users from Russian eavesdropping and has never had a legal or physical connection to Russia. Thus, there is no connection between political objectives and this integration.