Telegram will integrate a large language model like ChatGPT.

Telegram is quietly dominating the world of messaging. They will soon integrate LLM and this is why:

Generated by an AI with the following prompt: “crowd where each person is typing on their smartphones. Large train station.”

While all eyes are on bing-chatgpt-gate or Google, I think Telegram will be the one to show the first real success integrating large language models at scale.

Telegram has been learning conversational interfaces user experience since 2013, through data of 500+ million users, steadily growing Y2Y. They have been creating features, copied by the whole industry, gathering trust despite accusations of being a Russian spy, drug dealer's nest, or simply an app used by terrorists. Who can afford that today?

Let’s see why I think they will be a strong competitor for Google and Meta.

Reason 1:

Telegram is an innovator in messaging space. They were the first to integrate reactions, the first to let you make interactive stickers, edit messages, send auto-destructive messages, etc. They don’t have better engineers than Meta, but they probably have better data and data-driven product teams, who understand users’ pain points faster.

Reason 2:

They have large groups used by media and brands (some as big as 7 million members vs 1024 in Whatsapp until November 2022 when WhatsApp finally launched communities with a lag of 2 years on Telegram).

Addressing large audiences, Telegram has already access to billions of contextualized conversations, links, videos, images, and articles with comments from real humans (Putin’s bots excluded) on each post, and emoji reactions (discreet classifications).

Gold for LLM training sets.

Reason 3:

They are quietly eating SaaS verticals: group video calls (Zoom), large file storage and transfer (Wetransfer/Box), embedded e-commerce (Shopify), and more to come. Unlike Twitter, Telegram may soon become The Western WeChat.

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