Telegram will integrate Elon Musk's Grok A.I into the app (t.me)

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🔥 This summer, Telegram users will gain access to the best AI technology on the market. Elon Musk and I have agreed to a 1-year partnership to bring xAI’s chatbot Grok to our billion+ users and integrate it across all Telegram apps 🤝

💪 This also strengthens Telegram’s financial position: we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram 💰

Telegram + Grok = ❤️📈🏆

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI

Wait, Elon is paying Telegram to use Grok? Probably why I'm not a multi billionaire but paying people to use your service sounds like a weird business model.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram

Maybe the revenue from xAI subscriptions turns this into a profit. Telegram has a lot of active users.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, but are the subscriptions profitable? OpenAI is losing money on subscriptions: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/openai-is-losing-money-on-its-pricey-chatgpt-pro-plan-ceo-sam-altman-says/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Good point, didn't think of that.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Paying to get access to data and eyeballs. Social media is about mass surveillance and influence. The customers pay the service for access to the stupid people. Always have.

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