Telegram switches from (supposedly) Google to GPT4 for in-app translations

It looks like Telegram has recently switched to GPT4 for in-app translations:

• https://t.me/s/tgbreaking/436
• https://t.me/s/NewsAndTipsNT/3478

In-app translations of single messages, which are free for all users, have been out of service for more than a week. Telegram was supposedly using Google's translation services, behind a client API proxy method that the apps were calling to request the translation of a message. Before that, when the feature was first introduced, the apps were directly calling a private/undocumented Google Translate http endpoint (weirdly hardcoded in the sourcecode)

Durov recently announced an upcoming deep Grok (lol) integration in the apps

This is just to keep track user-level AI integrations in the app