Durov and Musk's collaboration: Grok AI assistant will be integrated into Telegram as early as summer 2025

Pavel Durov has revealed details of his collaboration with Elon Musk's xAI, which will integrate Grok's AI assistant into the popular messenger Telegram.

Here's What We Know

The founder of Telegram announced the main functions that will appear in the messenger in the summer of 2025:

• you will be able to make a request to the AI directly in the Telegram search bar;
• AI can be used to make a short paraphrase of a long post, message or file;
• generation of stickers directly in the dialogue by text request;
• factchecking data on Telegram channels;
• chat moderation with Grok - add a bot to the admin and it fights spam;
• generation of messages on demand.

The Grok chat bot will be assigned to all users by default.

The partnership between Telegram and xAI is for one year so far. Under the terms of the agreement, Durov's company will receive a $300 million investment and 50% of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold through Telegram.

The new features will appear in the next update of the messenger.

Source: Pavel Durov