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Under a deal announced Wednesday, Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, will be available to Telegram users for one year starting sometime in the summer. Telegram is a cloud-based social media and instant messaging service that is free but offers a paid tier.
🔥 This summer, Telegram users will gain access to the best AI technology on the market. @elonmusk and I have agreed to a 1-year partnership to bring xAI’s @grok to our billion+ users and integrate it across all Telegram apps 🤝
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According to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who announced the partnership on X, Telegram users will be able to pin Grok to the top of their chats. Users will be able to ask questions, create stickers, write suggestions and summarize chats, links and documents.
An X user asked Durov about the security of user data.
"User privacy is paramount," he responded. "To be clear, xAI will only access data that Telegram users explicitly share with Grok through direct interactions. That's expected -- you can't message anyone (including a chatbot) without sharing what you write."
Telegram, with an estimated 1 billion active users, will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI to integrate Grok into Telegram apps for the 12-month duration. Durov's company will also get half of the revenue from xAI subscriptions purchased through Telegram apps.
Telegram premium users have already had access to Grok since early 2025.
Until now, X has trained Grok's responses through public posts, except in the EU. It is unclear whether the Telegram-xAI partnership will leverage Telegram user posts to further train Grok.
Cloud security platform Netskope estimates that about 25% of EU firms have banned Grok. The bans come amid a string of controversies, including Musk's involvement with DOGE and the US government, and Grok's responses about "white genocide" in South Africa and doubts over Holocaust death numbers.
