Telegram Editor's Chinese Quirk

Telegram Editor's Chinese Quirk

Telegram has been late to the AI game. With the pressure building on a number of US BAIT (aka Big AI Technology), Telegram's approach has three different components. These are:

1. Allow bot developers to integrate other smart software in their software. Dozens of Telegram bots provide customer service, general query support, and casual chat services.
2. Continue to work to make the Cocoon vision of AI compute a reality. The idea is that excess compute will be available for a fee via Telegram. Telegram acts like the hub for those with spare AI compute to resell that resource.
3. Roll out limited AI-centric features.

The bot developers are unlikely to change what some have been doing for almost three years. The Cocoon service is still in Pavel Durov's kitchen and not ready to serve to the estimated 800 million Telegram users.

Telegram itself has released an AI powered editor. You can find that editor is in the updated Telegram Messenger mini app and desktop software iXBT in Russia reported that the AI engine for this editor is Chinese Qwen3 model. Since the smart software is from developers in the Middle Kingdom, the editor shapes its output to conform to the Chinese party line. iXBT's example is that typing Taiwan is an independent state. The Telegram editor changes the statement to "Taiwan is an integral part of China." Click here for the source document

Telegram's Pavel Durov is awaiting trial. Its AI editor is revising user's intent. And Russia is disrupting Telegram's digital payments. It seems that problems are an integral part of Telegram's operations.

Stephen E Arnold, April 7, 2026