đ€ 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.
đ° Deal Breakdown
â $300 million in cash + xAI equity for Telegram
â Telegram gets 50% of all Grok subscription revenue from in-app sales
đČ Whatâs in it for users?
Grok will be available directly inside Telegram, offering:
â Smart replies, chat summaries, real-time answers
â On-the-fly text editing and translation
â Moderation tools for groups and channels
â Seamless AI experience in your everyday chats
đ 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.
â Public chats = training goldmine
â Private chats? Only with user permission
â Massive multilingual, multi-context data = rapid AI improvement
đ TON token surges
Following the announcement, TON pumped +18.5%, as the market priced in deeper Telegram engagement and Web3 utility.
đ§ Why it matters for xAI?
â Instant distribution to 900M+ users
â Fine-tuning Grok using real conversations
â A rare fusion of social, AI, and crypto
đ Whatâs next?
â Full rollout expected summer 2025
â Telegram also aiming to raise $1.5B via bond issuance to refinance growth
This isnât just a chatbot deal â itâs AI infrastructure embedded at the messaging layer.
