Microsoft Copilot is now available on the popular messaging app Telegram. The tech giant integrated its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with Telegram on Tuesday, expanding its capabilities within the app. Telegram users can now chat, ask questions and search the internet with Copilot. The feature is currently in beta, although it has been made available to all users for free. However, there is a limit of 30 spins per day (30 round-trip messages) when accessing the AI.
How to access Copilot for Telegram
There are two simple methods to access the chatbot. Users can go to Microsoft's microsite dedicated to the feature and click the “Try Now” button to go directly to the Telegram app and find the Copilot chatbot. Alternatively, users can manually open the messaging app and search for Copilot.
However, in case users opt for the second method, it is important to ensure the genuine Copilot chatbot by looking for a blue checkmark next to the name. There are several replica bots with the same name, and some of them may be malicious.
Copilot is currently only available as a text-to-text chatbot and will not generate images. However, you can access the Internet and be able to answer web-based queries. Microsoft suggests asking the AI bot about cheat codes and game walkthroughs, movie suggestions, dating tips, recipes, live scores, personalized playlists, and more.
Copilot for Telegram
Interacting with Copilot is quite simple if you have experience using bots on Telegram. If not, you can use the “/ideas” command to get examples of what the AI can do, and “/restart” will clear the current context of a response and start over. The chatbot also displays these instructions and other similar methods when it first enters the chat.
However, before a user can interact with the chatbot, they will first need to register with their phone number. This may be of concern to some users given Telegram's privacy-focused approach. On its microsite, Microsoft addresses the concerns, saying, “Copilot on Telegram is based on the same security infrastructure as the Microsoft Copilot experience.”
