Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users
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As part of the agreement, Telegram will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI. Telegram will also receive 50 percent of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via its platform.
Edit: Looks like the deal changed rather quickly.
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As part of the agreement, Telegram will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI. Telegram will also receive 50 percent of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via its platform.
Edit: Looks like the deal changed rather quickly.
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As part of the agreement, Telegram will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI. Telegram will also receive 50 percent of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via its platform.
Edit: Looks like the deal changed rather quickly.
The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don't care about all of that.
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As part of the agreement, Telegram will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI. Telegram will also receive 50 percent of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via its platform.
Edit: Looks like the deal changed rather quickly.
elon musk in business deal with russian oligarch again. nothing is new
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The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don't care about all of that.
they will be integrating it on service side if I read it correctly so the choice of client would be non-important
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As part of the agreement, Telegram will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI. Telegram will also receive 50 percent of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via its platform.
Edit: Looks like the deal changed rather quickly.
This is old news already; xAI backed out of the deal this morning.
kate conger (@kateconger.com)
So Telegram’s CEO tweets this morning about a partnership with Grok, complete with a sizzle reel showing the product integration. X CEO retweets with a 💪🏼. Hours later, Elon Musk claims no deal has been signed after all.
Bluesky Social (bsky.app)
Either way, this "integration" is just Grok being available on Telegram for Premium subscribers only. It's just like any other bot on the app.
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This is old news already; xAI backed out of the deal this morning.
kate conger (@kateconger.com)
So Telegram’s CEO tweets this morning about a partnership with Grok, complete with a sizzle reel showing the product integration. X CEO retweets with a 💪🏼. Hours later, Elon Musk claims no deal has been signed after all.
Bluesky Social (bsky.app)
Either way, this "integration" is just Grok being available on Telegram for Premium subscribers only. It's just like any other bot on the app.
Thanks for the correction!
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The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don't care about all of that.
There are already agreements that forks are not allowed to remove the premium feature stuff, they could do this to grok as well.
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This is old news already; xAI backed out of the deal this morning.
kate conger (@kateconger.com)
So Telegram’s CEO tweets this morning about a partnership with Grok, complete with a sizzle reel showing the product integration. X CEO retweets with a 💪🏼. Hours later, Elon Musk claims no deal has been signed after all.
Bluesky Social (bsky.app)
Either way, this "integration" is just Grok being available on Telegram for Premium subscribers only. It's just like any other bot on the app.
"No deal has been signed" does not mean they've backed out.
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As part of the agreement, Telegram will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI. Telegram will also receive 50 percent of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via its platform.
Edit: Looks like the deal changed rather quickly.
Anyone still uses Telegram? What is really their selling point? We already got WhatsApp and Signal.
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Anyone still uses Telegram? What is really their selling point? We already got WhatsApp and Signal.
Anyone still uses Telegram?
Like 1B monthly active users.
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This is old news already; xAI backed out of the deal this morning.
kate conger (@kateconger.com)
So Telegram’s CEO tweets this morning about a partnership with Grok, complete with a sizzle reel showing the product integration. X CEO retweets with a 💪🏼. Hours later, Elon Musk claims no deal has been signed after all.
Bluesky Social (bsky.app)
Either way, this "integration" is just Grok being available on Telegram for Premium subscribers only. It's just like any other bot on the app.
Looks like musk got his feelings hurt over it, interesting.
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There are already agreements that forks are not allowed to remove the premium feature stuff, they could do this to grok as well.
That’s not how the GPL works. Any such agreements would be voluntary.
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elon musk in business deal with russian oligarch again. nothing is new
Telegram founder fled Putin.
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they will be integrating it on service side if I read it correctly so the choice of client would be non-important
They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.
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Anyone still uses Telegram? What is really their selling point? We already got WhatsApp and Signal.
Weird comparison.
WhatsApp is a kinda secure messaging app - small groupchats and personal chats first.
Signal is a secure messaging app - small groupchat and personal chats only.
TG is an app for big groupchats and channels, with dozens of people writing to one chat simultaneously, discussing big posts etc. It's, once again, like IRC, just proprietary, with history and sharing files. Or like a social network without friends and feeds.
Honestly I can't even blame TG for enshittificatory practices, because it gives so much more freedom to use it however one wants than the others. Even though I prefer to blame everything. All these things have taken a lot of work to create.
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That’s not how the GPL works. Any such agreements would be voluntary.
Your non-premium account tries to use a feature available to premium and that doesn't work. Where does the GPL come into equation?
Also they can detect alternative clients and ban them.
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Telegram founder fled Putin.
Not certain and doesn't make him an angel.
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Anyone still uses Telegram? What is really their selling point? We already got WhatsApp and Signal.
by my experience mostly straight eastern europeans. everyone else either started on something else or they moved off telegram because they didn't feel like they could trust it
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Not certain and doesn't make him an angel.
Definitively certain and I didn’t call anyone an angel, so no idea why bring such a thing up.
