“xAI will pay $300 million in cash and equity to the chat app as part of the deal, Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov said on Tuesday.”
xAI is paying $300 million to get Grok pinned above every chat on Telegram. Telegram also keeps half of any xAI subscription sold through the app. It goes into the search bar, chat summaries and moderation, so Grok reads everything users point it at.