Telegram's next AI agent may be a duck.
A 3D duck appeared in the beta version of Telegram for iOS 13.3 (build 37388), hidden inside the debug menu.
The feature, called Companion, features a virtual duck that appears in one-on-one private chats. For now, he does not interact with users or respond to messages. It just sits there, watching whatever happens in the conversation.
But there is a more interesting possibility, Telegram may be laying the infrastructure for AI agents that live directly in private chats.
What starts out as an innocent little duck can eventually turn into something much smarter.