Telegram, Musk-owned xAI partner to distribute Grok to messaging app's users
Source: Reuters
Elon Musk's AI start-up xAI will pay Telegram $300 million to deploy its Grok chatbot on the messaging app, aiming to tap the platform's more than one billion users and sharpen its competitive edge in the booming artificial intelligence market.
Under the one-year deal, xAI will also give Telegram half of any subscription sales made through the messaging app, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said in a Wednesday post on X, adding that the $300 million will be paid in cash and stock.
The deal could provide xAI, which acquired X earlier this year in a deal that values the social media platform at $33 billion, with valuable data to train and develop its AI models.
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According to its privacy policy, X uses public posts from users to train its AI models. It was not immediately clear if xAI would utilize data from Telegram similarly.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/telegram-musks-xai-partner-distribute-grok-messaging-apps-users-2025-05-28/
More, from TechCrunch:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/xai-to-invest-300m-in-telegram-integrate-grok-into-app/
As part of the deal, xAI’s chatbot, Grok, will be distributed via Telegram and integrated into apps available on Telegram’s platform for one year.
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Earlier this year, xAI made the Grok chatbot available to Telegram’s premium users. The new partnership sounds like Grok might now be 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 for 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.