Telegram will integrate Elon Musk's Grok A.I into the app

🔥 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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27 Comments

abobla@lemm.ee · 54 pts · 1y (4 replies)

oh damn, this will get a lot of downvotes 💀.

I swear I just wanted to inform you guys.

NGnius@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Thanks for letting us know to delete Telegram!

abobla@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y

ahaha, no problem!

XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Maybe it's the emojiis. It's hard to tell if they're sarcastic or the author genuinely thinks ❤️📈🏆

abobla@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

The announcement is from Pavel Durov, the Telegram owner. I've been following his telegram channel for a while, and I can confirm that he loves emojis 🏆🏆📈

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 30 pts · 1y (4 replies)

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.

abobla@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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/

abobla@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Good point, didn't think of that.

shirro@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y

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.

littletranspunk@lemmus.org · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I will up vote, not because I like it, but because more upvotes means it'll get on the "hot" list which will mean more people will see it and be disgusted by it, like myself.

abobla@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yes, this was my main goal. I thought the post was gonna get more upvotes since this might change people's opinions on telegram.

littletranspunk@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 1y

I understood your goal. Many people see the votes as expressing their opinion, and I don't fault them for that, but it does make for less reach when it's not understood as an engagement/reach tool

toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 1y

Ah, Telegram gets paid 300 million dollars for this action. Understandable.

random_character_a@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It seems I'll be switching to Signal...I guess

Konstant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

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iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 1y

I was about 80% successful switching to Signal from Telegram. So worthwhile.

MyOpinion@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y

I know an app that I will never use now.

resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y

I’m glad we found another place to stuff AI into.