Elon Musk has officially unveiled X Chat, a new encrypted messaging feature for the X platform, during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that aired on Friday. The entire messaging stack was rebuilt from scratch to incorporate peer-to-peer encryption technology similar to that used by Bitcoin, with Musk describing it as "very good encryption" currently under thorough testing.
Musk announced that X Chat is expected to roll out within the next few months and will be available both as an integrated part of X and as a standalone app. He emphasized that the app will not have any "hooks for advertising," citing competitors like WhatsApp, which he claims collects enough data to display targeted ads, creating a "massive security vulnerability" that hackers could exploit to access private messages.
In contrast, Musk aims for X Chat to be "the least insecure of any messaging system," supporting text, file sharing, and audio or video calls with full encryption. Separately, Musk also introduced Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia from his company xAI, but this is unrelated to the messaging launch.
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