This is impressive, Elon Musk's AI has teamed up with Telegram!

Telegram founder Pavel Durov stated that Telegram has reached a one-year cooperation agreement with xAI, which will distribute Grok to over one billion TG users and integrate it into the TG application. TG will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI, and will get 50% of the subscription revenue from xAI sold through TG.

It's somewhat like the explosive traffic after deepseek/Yuanbao was embedded in WeChat. The chat scenarios of AI robots naturally integrate with platforms like TG and WeChat. I was one of the earliest users of the GPT robot on TG.

It's highly likely that Grok on TG will also accept TON/USDT payments. TG's data is expected to be fed to Grok as well. It seems that TG doesn't have much ambition for AI, nor does it have the funds to develop a large model on its own.

The TON ecosystem is currently struggling, and it remains to be seen whether TON can play a bigger role in this cooperation, or even promote the development of AI products within the TON ecosystem.