xAI To Pay Telegram $300 Million To Integrate Grok Into Chat App
(Wednesday May 28, 2025 @05:40PM (BeauHD)
from the AI-all-the-things dept.)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/28/1946247/xai-to-pay-telegram-300-million-to-integrate-grok-into-chat-app
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Telegram has [1]partnered with xAI to integrate the Grok chatbot into its platform for one year, with xAI [2]paying $300 million in cash and equity . Telegram will also receive 50% of subscription revenue from Grok. TechCrunch reports:
> Earlier this year, xAI made the Grok chatbot available to Telegram's premium users. It seems Grok might now be made available to all users. A video posted by [Telegram CEO Pavel Durov] on X suggested that Grok can be pinned on top of chats within the app, and users can also ask questions to Grok from the search bar. Notably, Meta has also integrated Meta AI into the search bar on Instagram and WhatsApp. The video also shows that you will be able to use Grok for writing suggestions, summarizing chats, links, and documents, and creating stickers. Grok will supposedly also help answer questions for businesses and assist with moderation.
[1] https://x.com/durov/status/1927697402095378432
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/xai-to-pay-300m-in-telegram-integrate-grok-into-app/
> Earlier this year, xAI made the Grok chatbot available to Telegram's premium users. It seems Grok might now be made available to all users. A video posted by [Telegram CEO Pavel Durov] on X suggested that Grok can be pinned on top of chats within the app, and users can also ask questions to Grok from the search bar. Notably, Meta has also integrated Meta AI into the search bar on Instagram and WhatsApp. The video also shows that you will be able to use Grok for writing suggestions, summarizing chats, links, and documents, and creating stickers. Grok will supposedly also help answer questions for businesses and assist with moderation.
[1] https://x.com/durov/status/1927697402095378432
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/xai-to-pay-300m-in-telegram-integrate-grok-into-app/
secure messaging (Score:2)
by awwshit ( 6214476 )
Just what I want in a secure messaging app, everything vacuumed up by AI (where I lose control of my data).
Synergy (Score:2)
by ugen ( 93902 )
Two russian assets combined - great syngery.
Re: (Score:2)
by Powercntrl ( 458442 )
> Two russian assets combined - great syngery.
I'm pretty sure Musk is South African. Still, it is an odd pairing.
Re: (Score:1)
by Rabid Elk ( 577476 )
Lol, X is only free speech when you align with its owner. There's a reason why its turned into a cesspit of far right nonsense, and grok had a meltdown due to elon meddling in its default prompt.
Nazi White Genocide (Score:2)
by mspohr ( 589790 )
Great, now we get free Nazis and white genocide conspiracy theories along with the usual hallucinations.
Time to ditch Telegram.
You know you are the product when... (Score:3)
... when someone willing to pay $300M for you to use it.