Telegram Releases Major Update Supporting AI Bots with Rich Text and Group Chat Management
Telegram has launched a major update, allowing bots to support rich text formats and introducing AI-assisted group chat management features, along with the official release of a smartwatch version.
After the update, AI Bots can send tables, lists, nested quotes, inline images, carousels, collapsible paragraphs, mathematical formulas, etc. The character limit for a single message is 32,768 characters, with over 8,000 words automatically collapsed under "Show More," significantly enhancing the experience for long content output.
This move strengthens Telegram's competitiveness in the instant messaging and AI integration fields, attracting developers and enterprise users to migrate, further concentrating funds and attention on the platform ecosystem, and accelerating the pressure to replace traditional social apps like WeChat.
Source: Public Information
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Telegram's founder Pavel Durov's team has previously expanded the ecosystem through rapid iterations of the Bot API and Premium features, evolving from pure text bots to supporting payments and channel tools. This update on rich text and AI group management continues their strategy of "speed and openness," having balanced user growth between privacy protection and feature richness multiple times.
The company is mobilizing engineering resources to invest capital in AI integration and cross-device experiences, lowering the development barrier through smartwatch support and rich text capabilities, while also opening new monetization paths for AI Bot content cards and group chat automation, attracting more third-party AI developers to build the ecosystem.
Similar to Discord or Slack, which expand user stickiness through bots and integrations, Telegram is currently in a transition phase from basic communication to controlling an AI-native platform.
Essentially, this is a reconstruction of the industry chain driven by technological substitution: rich text and AI management capabilities break the limitations of traditional apps, with capital shifting from closed ecosystems to open bot platforms, reshaping the pricing power of instant messaging towards platforms that support long content and automation tools.
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The faster the feature iteration, the more intense the user migration; an open ecosystem is a barrier.
Pure text limits creativity, while rich formats enable it; whoever liberates AI first controls the expression leverage.
Small updates accumulate momentum; cross-device connectivity builds ecosystems; speed surpasses scale, and openness surpasses closure.