Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has signed a partnership agreement with the messaging app Telegram, under which the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, will be integrated into the Telegram platform for one year. The goal of the move is exposure to the potential of over a billion users and to deepen xAI’s foothold in the rapidly developing AI market. According to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, xAI will pay approximately $300 million in cash and shares to Telegram in exchange for deploying the bot on the platform. In addition, Telegram will receive 50% of the revenue from users who subscribe to Grok through the app.
