Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday that the chat app had struck a major deal with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, to bring the Grok chatbot to its billion-plus user base.

Under the one-year deal, xAI will also give Telegram half of any subscription sales made through the messaging app, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said in a post on X earlier on Wednesday, adding ...

Update (May 28, 11:12 pm UTC): This article has been updated to add X posts from Elon Musk and Pavel Durov regarding the deal. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has “agreed in ...

Durov's company will also receive half of the revenue from xAI subscriptions purchased through Telegram apps. Telegram premium users have had access to Grok since early 2025.

The terms of the deal may appear unbalanced, but the transaction allows xAI, which in late March acquired Musk's X platform, to have access to Telegram's customers, which Durov estimated has more ...

Pavel Durov, 40, told the French outlet Le Point in an interview about his decision to allocate his fortune. He's worth about $17.1 billion, per Forbes. Father to six children via natural ...

Under the one-year deal, xAI will also give Telegram half of any subscription sales made through the messaging app, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Wednesday in a post on X, adding that the ...

Telegram established a partnership with Elon Musk’s xAI to provide the Grok generative artificial intelligence program on the messaging service for one year, Telegram’s CEO announced Wednesday.