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Title: Elon Musk's xAI is paying Telegram $300 million to adopt Grok

Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 15:42:32 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/elon-musks-xai-is...

Elon Musk's xAI is paying the messaging platform Telegram a cool $300 million
to introduce the chatbot Grok to its users. The terms of the deal are
extremely favorable to Telegram, as the $300 million only covers a single
year and xAI will evenly split any subscription sales to Grok Premium and
Premium+ with the messaging platform. Telegram will be paid in both cash and
equity.

Telegram and xAI have agreed to a 1-year partnership to distribute Grok to
TelegramΓÇÖs billion+ users and integrate it into its apps. Telegram will
receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of revenue from xAI
subscriptions sold via Telegram. Together, we win! ❤️📈🏆
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ΓÇö Pavel Durov (@durov) May 28, 2025

This will introduce Grok to gobs of new people, as Telegram boasts over one
billion monthly users. X, on the other hand, handles half that amount. X
leverages public posts from users to train Grok, though not in the EU, and it
remains to be seen if the deal includes language to do the same thing with
Telegram. The platform includes a feature called Channels that's sort of like
a social media network, which could house data that's ripe for the picking.

Engadget reached out to Telegram to ask about Grok and training data and will
update this post if we hear back. Both companies have remained mum on this
question to other publications, like Reuters. It's worth noting that AI
companies are running out of easily accessible data troves.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/ai/elon-musks-xai-is...
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