X is trying to develop the attain of its Grok chatbot, by partnering with messaging app Telegram on a brand new integration.
So now, if you happen to’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 option to get solutions from Elon’s “non-woke” AI chatbot.
Which X Corp is investing closely into.
In December final 12 months, xAI introduced that it had raised a further $6 billion in Collection C funding, taking its valuation to $18 billion. Elon’s AI challenge has quickly scaled up its capability, with its enormous “Colossus” AI information heart in Memphis now housing round 200k Nvidia H100 models.
That places it in competitors with different AI tasks on capability, and X has additionally added in a variety of how for all X customers to have interaction with its AI chatbot throughout the app.
And now, you should use it exterior the platform as effectively.
Partnering with Russian-founded Telegram is an fascinating alternative, although Telegram has turn out 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 fascinating to see how Grok features in one other app.
But it surely 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 might be a great way to get extra individuals participating with X’s AI software, because it seems to transform Grok right into a money-maker for the platform.
It’s not solely clear how a lot curiosity Grok is producing, as X hasn’t shared loads of utilization perception. However with X customers now additionally in a position to ask Grok questions inside a put up stream, it does seem to be extra customers are referring the bot extra usually.
