this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
98 points (81.4% liked)

Technology

73331 readers
4355 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

πŸ”₯ This summer, Telegram users will gain access to the best AI technology on the market. Elon Musk and I have agreed to a 1-year partnership to bring xAI’s chatbot Grok to our billion+ users and integrate it across all Telegram apps 🀝

πŸ’ͺ This also strengthens Telegram’s financial position: we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram πŸ’°

Telegram + Grok = β€οΈπŸ“ˆπŸ†

top 28 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] abobla@lemm.ee 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

oh damn, this will get a lot of downvotes πŸ’€.

I swear I just wanted to inform you guys.

[–] NGnius@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for letting us know to delete Telegram!

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

ahaha, no problem!

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's the emojiis. It's hard to tell if they're sarcastic or the author genuinely thinks β€οΈπŸ“ˆπŸ†

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

The announcement is from Pavel Durov, the Telegram owner. I've been following his telegram channel for a while, and I can confirm that he loves emojis πŸ†πŸ†πŸ“ˆ

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI

Wait, Elon is paying Telegram to use Grok? Probably why I'm not a multi billionaire but paying people to use your service sounds like a weird business model.

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram

Maybe the revenue from xAI subscriptions turns this into a profit. Telegram has a lot of active users.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] abobla@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Good point, didn't think of that.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Paying to get access to data and eyeballs. Social media is about mass surveillance and influence. The customers pay the service for access to the stupid people. Always have.

[–] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will up vote, not because I like it, but because more upvotes means it'll get on the "hot" list which will mean more people will see it and be disgusted by it, like myself.

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this was my main goal. I thought the post was gonna get more upvotes since this might change people's opinions on telegram.

[–] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 2 points 1 month ago

I understood your goal. Many people see the votes as expressing their opinion, and I don't fault them for that, but it does make for less reach when it's not understood as an engagement/reach tool

[–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, Telegram gets paid 300 million dollars for this action. Understandable.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It seems I'll be switching to Signal...I guess

I was about 80% successful switching to Signal from Telegram. So worthwhile.

[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Signal has no cool channels, or I don't know how to find them.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

I know an app that I will never use now.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

I’m glad we found another place to stuff AI into.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck is with the emojis? Was this written by a preteen?

[–] laz@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

Probably by AI. AI loves random emoji

[–] Murvel@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Russian Spyware now with built in support for fascism. Fucking garbage

[–] Paul_1958@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Anything to do with Musk is toxic.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Going by the reputation of both user bases this must be a match made in heaven. Or should I say hell?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Not really...I am using it exclusively for notifications because email integration was too annoying.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago

Looks like I'm still not using telegram then.

Anthrax will integrate HIV into the mix.

[–] J52@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

Haha, that's a cheap sellout before committing suicide for an app. Show us where your loyalty is.