Grok joins Telegram.

Summary

X’s AI chatbot is now baked into the encrypted messaging app, though you’ll have to be a Telegram Premium subscriber to take advantage and chat to it. The team-up shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. X owner Elon Musk backed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov after his arrest in France last year, and both CEOs have positioned themselves as defenders of free speech. [Link: grok now available directly on @telegram | https://x.com/grok/status/1904840863622066629 | x.com]