Business xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app - @grok, is this true?

Ivan Mehta
6:25 AM PDT · May 28, 2025


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Telegram has struck a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, to distribute the latter’s chatbot, Grok, via Telegram and integrate it into apps available on the chat app’s platform for one year.

xAI will pay $300 million in cash and equity to the chat app as part of the deal, Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov said on Tuesday.

Durov said Telegram will also earn 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions purchased through the 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 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.

Note: This story was corrected to clarify that xAI is paying Telegram $300 million for distributing Grok.

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[Coolio55]

@grok add an israeli flag to these nudes

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

This story was corrected to clarify that xAI is paying Telegram $300 million for distributing Grok

Corrected to clarify the crux of the entire article? The statement that's in the headline? The absolute state of modern journalism.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

Wasn't Musk going on record telling everybody that Telegram is comped, and they should all switch to Signal?

 

[Google.com]

Telegram has to be the biggest honey pot in history. Anyone who uses it is retarded.

Ah yes the "privacy" focused app that has been used in multiple glowie sponsored operations that despite being "privacy" focused needs your real phone number for... reasons. But yes add an LLM data harvesting machine to it, thats not even more suspicious at all.

 

[Neodanthril]

Telegram has to be the biggest honey pot in history. Anyone who uses it is retarded.

Ah yes the "privacy" focused app that has been used in multiple glowie sponsored operations that despite being "privacy" focused needs your real phone number for... reasons. But yes add an LLM data harvesting machine to it, thats not even more suspicious at all.

The only English speaking people that used telegram were wignats that were banned from Twitter. Nobody was using it for privacy based reasons. After musk let all the wignats back on Twitter its basically dead

 

[Google.com]

The only English speaking people that used telegram were wignats

You forget furries, telegram is filled with furries thousands of them 80% of all telegrams bandwidth is probably used to transmit stickers of naked anthropomorphic foxes.

 

[deleuzeon]

$300 million marketing campaign. Probably not actually that extravagant of a budget in the world of big tech marketing campaigns. The thinking must be that there are lots of people on Telegram who never otherwise go where an LLM is, so they want to put it in front of them.

 

[David Brown]

Mfw I'm on telegram for convenient file sharing with my buddies and primarily to follow meme channels

Is there any equivalent program with robust chat features and easy file sharing? I also like the saved messages feature of telegram to make notes to myself.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I only use Telegram to check KF when it's down.

 

[Fucker Carlson]

this app sucks dick now anyway

 

[Whaler]

Wasn't Musk going on record telling everybody that Telegram is comped, and they should all switch to Signal?

Nah, he was telling people not to use WhatsApp and switch to Signal because of some privacy policy changes WhatsApp was making. However, he's started criticizing Signal over "known vulnerabilities" that the company hasn't fixed yet. Give him a year or two he'll probably start trashing Telegram in favor of the next trend.

 

[Coolio55]

You forget furries, telegram is filled with furries thousands of them 80% of all telegrams bandwidth is probably used to transmit stickers of naked anthropomorphic foxes.

And then their channel gets deleted and they have a meltdown on socials

 

[quaawaa]

You forget furries, telegram is filled with furries thousands of them 80% of all telegrams bandwidth is probably used to transmit stickers of naked anthropomorphic foxes.

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[Kendall Motor Oil]

The only English speaking people that used telegram were wignats that were banned from Twitter. Nobody was using it for privacy based reasons. After musk let all the wignats back on Twitter its basically dead

So all the groypers left Telegram?

this app sucks dick now anyway

There are a lot of news channels that just steal content and programmatically add a giant watermark while shilling their patreon/subscribestar. The monetization also sucks.