Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users

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• Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is old news already; xAI backed out of the deal this morning.

  bsky.app/profile/kateconger.com/…/3lqbe7bikzs2u

  Either way, this “integration” is just Grok being available on Telegram for Premium subscribers only. It’s just like any other bot on the app.

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  • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thanks for the correction!

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “No deal has been signed” does not mean they’ve backed out.

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    • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s pretty much unclear

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  • Daggity@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Looks like musk got his feelings hurt over it, interesting.

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    • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Likely because Telegram pointing out that xAI is paying them instead of the other way around is hugely embarrassing.

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don’t care about all of that.

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  • droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    they will be integrating it on service side if I read it correctly so the choice of client would be non-important

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.

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  • passepartout@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There are already agreements that forks are not allowed to remove the premium feature stuff, they could do this to grok as well.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.

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• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Anyone still uses Telegram? What is really their selling point? We already got WhatsApp and Signal.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Weird comparison.

    WhatsApp is a kinda secure messaging app - small groupchats and personal chats first.

    Signal is a secure messaging app - small groupchat and personal chats only.

    TG is an app for big groupchats and channels, with dozens of people writing to one chat simultaneously, discussing big posts etc. It’s, once again, like IRC, just proprietary, with history and sharing files. Or like a social network without friends and feeds.

    Honestly I can’t even blame TG for enshittificatory practices, because it gives so much more freedom to use it however one wants than the others. Even though I prefer to blame everything. All these things have taken a lot of work to create.

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    • tauren@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      TG is an app for big groupchats and channels

      You make it sound like that’s the sole purpose. There are 1:1 chats in Telegram and people actively use them. Everything else builds on top of that.

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  • tauren@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Anyone still uses Telegram?

    Like 1B monthly active users.

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    • Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    by my experience mostly straight eastern europeans. everyone else either started on something else or they moved off telegram because they didn’t feel like they could trust it

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  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I do

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• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  elon musk in business deal with russian oligarch again. nothing is new

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Telegram founder fled Putin.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not certain and doesn’t make him an angel.

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