Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is investing $300 million worth of cash and equity in the chat 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.
Durov said Telegram will earn 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions that are purchased through the app.
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.
