Telegram will distribute a million dollars in the form of grants to the authors of bots

    The management of the popular mobile messenger Telegram announced a competition for the best bot. The prize fund of the contest will be a million dollars. Developers of the best bots will receive grants in the amount of $ 25,000.

    The main requirements for bots are very fast work, usefulness for a large number of people, work in inline mode (calling the bot through its nickname from the input line in any chat).

    Among the areas of development of bots that are particularly interested in the developers of Telegram - integration, tools for bot builders, artificial intelligence, processing of natural languages.

    The developers clarified that they do not limit the authors of bots to this set only. Also, they are not against porting bots from other platforms, if this is not done to the detriment of their convenience - in the Telegram they will have to work as if they were born there.

    Prizes will be issued during 2016, so the deadline for submitting a bot to the competition is December 31. Participants must submit applications on the BotSupport channel, indicating the nickname for the bot and the hashtag #BotPrize.

    Telegram Messenger was created by the founder of the VKontakte network Pavel Durov together with his brother. The idea of ​​creation came to Paul after he realized that he did not have convenient and safe channels to communicate with his brother. The first Telegram client for iOS devices was introduced on August 14, 2013.

    Telegram opened the platform for bots in the summer of 2015. Bots in the program look like regular accounts that are not managed by people, but by programs. They can do anything - teach, play, search for information, broadcast messages to a wide audience, remind of events, connect to other services, and so on.

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