{"id":130168,"date":"2025-05-28T13:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130168"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:16:04","slug":"elon-musks-xai-inks-300m-deal-with-telegram-for-grok-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130168","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI inks $300M deal with Telegram for Grok integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsElon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company xAI has partnered with Telegram to integrate its AI chatbot Grok across the messaging platform, according to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov.<br \/>\nTelegram and xAI have agreed to a one-year partnership to distribute Grok to a billion Telegram users and integrate it into its apps, Durov announced on X on May 28.<br \/>\nAs part of the agreement, Telegram will receive $300 million in cash and equity from Musk\u2019s AI company, in addition to 50% of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram, the CEO noted.<br \/>\n\u201cTogether, we win,\u201d Durov said in the statement on X.<br \/>\nGrok integration begins with Telegram<br \/>\nAccording to a promo video accompanying Durov\u2019s announcement, the partnership is expected to bring a wide rollout of Grok features within the messenger.<br \/>\nAccessible via the search bar on Telegram, Grok will offer threaded chats, smart text editing, chat summaries, document digests, inbox agents, group chat moderation and more.<br \/>\nSource: Pavel DurovNeither xAI nor Grok had confirmed the partnership independently at the time of publication.<br \/>\nRelated: Durov blocked from attending Oslo Freedom Forum \u2014 Human Rights Foundation<br \/>\nSome commentators speculate that Musk will soon create his own Telegram channel following the partnership.<br \/>\nToncoin spikes over 20% on a series of Telegram news<br \/>\nThe news comes amid several Telegram-related stories published on May 28, including BlackRock\u2019s reported participation in the messenger\u2019s $1.5 billion bond sale and ex-Visa crypto executive Nikola Plecas joining the TON Foundation as its new vice president of payments.<br \/>\nTelegram works closely with the TON Foundation, picking Toncoin (TON) as the messenger\u2019s only accepted cryptocurrency for app services in January.<br \/>\nToncoin (TON) 24-hour price chart. Source: CoinGeckoToncoin has rallied on the news, seeing a 20% spike within a few hours. According to data from CoinGecko, TON is trading at $3.60 and is currently the 19th largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $8.9 billion.<br \/>\nMagazine: AI cures blindness, \u2018good\u2019 propaganda bots, OpenAI doomsday bunker: AI Eye<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/elon-musk-xai-300-million-telegram-deal-grok-integration?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsElon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company xAI has partnered with Telegram to integrate its AI chatbot Grok across the messaging platform, according to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov. Telegram and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}