X is seeking to broaden the attain of its Grok chatbot, by partnering with messaging app Telegram on a brand new integration.
So now, in the event you’re subscribed to each Telegram Premium and X Premium, you’ll have the ability to chat with xAI’s Grok AI chatbot inside your Telegram streams, offering one other solution to get solutions from Elon’s “non-woke” AI chatbot.
Which X Corp is investing closely into.
In December final yr, xAI introduced that it had raised a further $6 billion in Sequence C funding, taking its valuation to $18 billion. Elon’s AI mission has quickly scaled up its capability, with its enormous “Colossus” AI knowledge middle in Memphis now housing round 200k Nvidia H100 items.
That places it in competitors with different AI initiatives on capability, and X has additionally added in a spread of the way for all X customers to interact with its AI chatbot throughout the app.
And now, you need to use it outdoors the platform as properly.
Partnering with Russian-founded Telegram is an attention-grabbing selection, although Telegram has grow to be standard with right-wing pundits, following their ejection from mainstream social apps.
So it does seemingly align with X’s core consumer base, and it’ll be attention-grabbing to see how Grok features in one other app.
Nevertheless it doesn’t do a lot to counter allegations that Trump and Musk are extra sympathetic to Russia, and the Russian authorities’s agenda.
To be honest, Telegram is predicated in Dubai, with its founders exiting Russia a number of years again.
And once more, given the viewers crossover, it could possibly be a great way to get extra folks participating with X’s AI device, because it seems to transform Grok right into a money-maker for the platform.
It’s not fully clear how a lot curiosity Grok is producing, as X hasn’t shared a whole lot of utilization perception. However with X customers now additionally in a position to ask Grok questions inside a put up stream, it does look like extra customers are referring the bot extra typically.
