Telegram and xAI have announced a one-year partnership to integrate Grok into Telegram apps, extending the AI assistant to over a billion users.
The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don’t care about all of that.
Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users
Submitted 4 weeks ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
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woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
droopy4096@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
they will be integrating it on service side if I read it correctly so the choice of client would be non-important
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.
passepartout@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
There are already agreements that forks are not allowed to remove the premium feature stuff, they could do this to grok as well.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Anyone still uses Telegram? What is really their selling point? We already got WhatsApp and Signal.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
tauren@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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.
tauren@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Anyone still uses Telegram?
Like 1B monthly active users.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 weeks 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
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 4 weeks ago
I do
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
elon musk in business deal with russian oligarch again. nothing is new
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Telegram founder fled Putin.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not certain and doesn’t make him an angel.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 4 weeks 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.
tonytins@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Thanks for the correction!
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
“No deal has been signed” does not mean they’ve backed out.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Yeah it’s pretty much unclear
Daggity@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Looks like musk got his feelings hurt over it, interesting.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Likely because Telegram pointing out that xAI is paying them instead of the other way around is hugely embarrassing.