Elon Musk and Pavel Durov have entered into a partnership between xAI and Telegram, under which the Grok chatbot will appear in the Telegram messenger.
The deal will run for a year. Telegram will receive $300 million in cash and xAI shares, as well as 50% of revenue from Grok subscriptions made through Telegram.
Telegram users will get all the core features of Grok, including image generation and text summarization.
By the way, this is the second case of integrating a large AI platform into a messenger. In May 2024, Microsoft launched the Copilot chatbot on Telegram. It supports the Ukrainian language and allows you to ask up to 30 requests per day for free.
Image generation features in Copilot are not available in Telegram — only in the web version or desktop application. Other features, including writing texts, code, and translation, work fully in the messenger.