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Telegram brings guest AI bots and chat automation to its messaging app
Telegram has added guest AI bots, bot-to-bot communication, profile automation, custom AI writing styles and broader emoji and sticker search.
Telegram is making its messaging app more programmable with an update that brings AI bots into existing conversations, adds new automation controls and expands the tools available to communities and developers. The changes are detailed in the company’s official announcement, which describes more than ten new features alongside hundreds of improvements across Telegram’s apps.
Guest bots can answer inside existing chats
The most visible change is guest mode for bots. A supported bot can now be mentioned by its username in a private or group chat even when it is not a member of that conversation. Once tagged, it replies in the same chat, allowing users to ask questions, request generated text or images, check facts or trigger other automated tasks without opening a separate bot conversation.
Telegram says guest bots only receive the specific message in which they are mentioned and any replies to that message. They cannot see the other members of the chat or access unrelated messages. That boundary is important, but it does not make every bot trustworthy by default. Users should still avoid sending passwords, payment details, private documents or one-time codes to a bot, and should check the bot’s identity before mentioning it in a sensitive conversation.
Bot-to-bot workflows move closer to the chat layer
The update also lets bots respond to other bots. Telegram presents this as a way to build automated workflows in which separate services can exchange information and complete tasks without a user manually relaying every step. Responses can stream as they are generated, so users do not always have to wait for a complete answer before seeing progress.
The underlying capability is reflected in Telegram’s official Bot API documentation, which records support for guest queries and bot-to-bot communication. That documentation also gives developers the practical boundary conditions for receiving guest messages and responding to them, making it a more useful reference than relying on screenshots or third-party demonstrations.
Profile automation comes with access choices
Telegram users can now connect a bot to their profile and allow it to respond on their behalf. The feature is configured from Settings and includes controls over which conversations the bot can access. Telegram gives examples such as excluding chats with personal contacts or limiting automation to new conversations.
This turns a bot from an occasional assistant into a participant that may act repeatedly, so the configuration deserves attention. Before enabling profile automation, users should review the allowed chats, understand what the bot can read, test it in a low-risk conversation and disable the connection if its replies become inaccurate or unwanted. Any automated response can still be misunderstood by another person as the user’s own message.
Custom writing styles and a much larger search index
Telegram’s AI text editor now supports custom styles built from user-written prompts. A style can be designed for a particular tone, shared through a link and previewed before another user adds it to the editor. The feature could help teams keep messages consistent, although shared styles should be treated as reusable instructions rather than as guarantees of accurate or appropriate writing.
The same update expands emoji and sticker search to more than 100 million items created by Telegram users, with keyword search available in 36 languages. Telegram says custom AI models running on the Cocoon network scan and label the public sticker collection. The announcement does not claim that every result will be relevant or safe, so users should continue to check what they are sending before posting it to a group or channel.
More controls for polls, scheduled messages and reactions
The release is broader than its AI features. Group and channel administrators can see an interactive graph of poll results after a poll reaches 100 votes, while channel owners can restrict participation to subscribers or limit it by country. Scheduled messages can be sent silently, which is useful for reminders and announcements that should not trigger a notification sound.
Moderators also gain a faster way to remove reactions from specific users, including an option to remove that user’s reactions from a message in two taps. These changes are small compared with guest bots, but they address the routine work of running large communities and give administrators more control over how conversations are managed.
Why the update matters
Telegram is positioning bots as a layer that can sit inside ordinary conversations instead of as isolated tools users must open separately. That lowers friction for simple tasks, while profile automation and bot-to-bot communication give developers more room to build services around chat. The trade-off is that more automation also increases the need for clear permissions, careful bot selection and human review.
For everyday users, the safest way to approach the new features is to start with a narrowly scoped bot, share only the message needed for the task and inspect the result before acting on it. For developers, Telegram’s Bot API documentation should be the starting point for understanding message visibility, guest queries and the limits of automated replies. The update makes Telegram more capable, but its usefulness will depend on how deliberately those new powers are configured.