Telegram, Elon Musk's xAI partner to distribute Grok to messaging app's users

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said on Wednesday its messaging app and Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI have agreed to a partnership to distribute Grok to its more than billion users.

"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," Durov said in a post on X.



He further added how this deal will help Telegram's financial position. He said that the app will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram.

Grok 3, which was described as “the smartest AI on Earth” by Musk, launched in February.

Musk had claimed that Grok 3 outperforms Alphabet's Google Gemini, DeepSeek's V3 model, Anthropic's Claude, and OpenAI's GPT-4o across mathematics, science, and coding benchmarks.