🤝 Telegram + xAI = $300M Grok AI Integration Deal
Elon Musk and Pavel Durov just locked in a powerful AI partnership:
Grok AI is officially coming to Telegram.
💰 Deal Breakdown
– $300 million in cash + xAI equity for Telegram
– Telegram gets 50% of all Grok subscription revenue from in-app sales
📲 What’s in it for users?
Grok will be available directly inside Telegram, offering:
– Smart replies, chat summaries, real-time answers
– On-the-fly text editing and translation
– Moderation tools for groups and channels
– Seamless AI experience in your everyday chats
🌍 The scale: 900M+ users, billions of messages
Telegram currently serves over 900 million monthly active users, with billions of messages sent daily.
Grok is about to get access to one of the largest real-world conversational datasets on the planet.
– Public chats = training goldmine
– Private chats? Only with user permission
– Massive multilingual, multi-context data = rapid AI improvement
📈 TON token surges
Following the announcement, TON pumped +18.5%, as the market priced in deeper Telegram engagement and Web3 utility.
🧠 Why it matters for xAI?
– Instant distribution to 900M+ users
– Fine-tuning Grok using real conversations
– A rare fusion of social, AI, and crypto
🔍 What’s next?
– Full rollout expected summer 2025
– Telegram also aiming to raise $1.5B via bond issuance to refinance growth
This isn’t just a chatbot deal – it’s AI infrastructure embedded at the messaging layer.