xAI To Pay Telegram $300 Million To Integrate Grok Into Chat App 15
Telegram has partnered with xAI to integrate the Grok chatbot into its platform for one year, with xAI 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. UPDATE: In a response to Durov's X post outlining the partnership, Elon Musk said: "No deal has been signed."
"Musk's denial, however, raises questions about the status and structure of the agreement," reports TheStreet. "It's unclear whether the partnership has been formalized or if Durov was announcing a framework that remains under discussion. Neither Telegram nor xAI has issued a follow-up clarification."
"Musk's denial, however, raises questions about the status and structure of the agreement," reports TheStreet. "It's unclear whether the partnership has been formalized or if Durov was announcing a framework that remains under discussion. Neither Telegram nor xAI has issued a follow-up clarification."
You know you are the product when... (Score:4, Funny)
secure messaging (Score:3)
Just what I want in a secure messaging app, everything vacuumed up by AI (where I lose control of my data).
Synergy (Score:3, Informative)
Two russian assets combined - great syngery.
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Two russian assets combined - great syngery.
I'm pretty sure Musk is South African. Still, it is an odd pairing.
Re:Synergy (Score:4, Informative)
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Two russian assets combined - great syngery.
I'm pretty sure Musk is South African. Still, it is an odd pairing.
A Russian asset does not mean he's Russian, it's a claim that he's an asset used by Russia.
Nazi White Genocide (Score:5, Interesting)
Great, now we get free Nazis and white genocide conspiracy theories along with the usual hallucinations.
Time to ditch Telegram.
Re: (Score:3)
They have to take money from someone. Most users don't pay, and they quit being able to openly host drug dealers, scammers, and terrorists last year. Immediately after Durov's arrest, the features those guys used most disappeared, and I started getting official ads for cryptocrap direct from the app, instead of random scam accounts.
So yeah, they're taking crypto money, and now fascist money to promote their propaganda... imagine that being your way of going legit with funding.
I just wanted yiff stickers, wh
It would be a lot cheaper (Score:2)
So dumb (Score:2)