Paweł Durow informed about cooperation with XAI – the company of Elona Muska in the field of artificial intelligence – on his channel on a telegram. He wrote that it would include the integration of Chatbot Grok from Xai with the messenger. This bot is already operating on X Elona Musk – thanks to him, the American billionaire wanted to challenge his former colleague Sam Altman from Opeli, who developed ChatgPT.
Durow wrote that in the summer, users of the telegram will receive access to Musk's artificial intelligence in the application. It will be expanded with intelligent search and “expansion” functions from the neural network.
Due to this cooperation, Bot Muska will gain access to a telegram clients, and Durow – $ 300 million. (PLN 1.1 billion) and 50 percent revenues from the XAI subscription in the messenger. As a result, Musk will expand the base of potential customers – to 550 million users of the X social network (approx. 700,000 of them are paid subscribers) will be joined by another one billion telegram users (15 million paid subscribers). At the end of last year, Chatgpt had about 200 million active users.
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On May 28, “The Wall Street Journal”, citing his sources, wrote that Durow will also have other large investors from the USA. On Wednesday, a telegram can obtain $ 1.5 billion. (PLN 5.6 billion) by issuing bonds with a profitability of 9 percent The buyers include world leaders in asset management – Blackrock and the Citadel hedge fund.
The Durowa agreement with Musk shows that investors are still ready to invest in a telegram, despite the legal problems with which the platform is struggling with. “The Wall Street Journal” writes that Durow wanted to personally meet with investors from the USA and on May 12 he asked for a special permission to visit the US to conduct negotiations. Politico reports that the application was rejected by the French authorities – the prosecutor's office stated that the reason for the journey was neither convincing or justified. “
In France, a case is pending against the owner of a telegram for refusing cooperation in the investigation into illegal activities on the messenger. Durow does not agree with the allegations.
