Ever feel like your AI assistant knows a little too much? Like it—s judging your weird search history while secretly renting out your brain—s compute power to pay for its AWS bill? Well, Pavel Durov, the man who brought you Telegram, just threw a digital coconut at the whole system.

He announced Cocoon, a new decentralized network for private AI computations. In simple terms, it—s a way to run AI tasks without Big Tech snooping, tracking, or charging you an arm and a leg. The idea is to cut out the expensive middlemen—your Amazons and Microsofts—by letting people contribute their own GPU power. Your data stays locked in a private vault, and queries get done cheaper. It—s like a neighborhood watch for your digital thoughts.

The funniest part? They—re asking you to connect your fancy graphics card to the network. That—s right, the same GPU you bought to run the latest games at max settings could now be quietly helping someone else—s AI translate their messages in total secrecy. Imagine your computer, between rendering dragons, whispering the meaning of a love poem from Russian to English. It—s a side hustle for your PC, and honestly, more productive than most of our actual side hustles.

And let—s talk about the promise of —full privacy.— Finally, we can ask an AI the truly embarrassing questions without it subtly adjusting our ads for the next decade. —Hey Cocoon, how do I remove a spaghetti stain from a wool sweater—? and not see a sponsored pasta kit an hour later. It—s the digital equivalent of whispering into a trusted friend—s ear, if that friend was a global network of anonymous graphics cards.

Telegram users are set to get new AI features from this, like private message translation. So soon, you can finally understand what your international group chat is arguing about, and they—ll never know you used to think —gato— was an insult. It—s a small step for your group chat, but a giant leap for taking control back from the cloud overlords.

So, is it a game-changer? A world where our data isn—t the product and our GPUs can earn their keep sounds pretty sweet. The era of the expensive, nosy middleman might just be getting a much-needed privacy blanket. Now, if you—ll excuse me, I have to go see if my graphics card is interested in contributing. It—s been looking a little idle lately, just sitting there judging my life choices.