Telegram与马斯克的xAI达成协议，将Grok AI整合到其加密消息平台中。xAI为此投资3亿美元，Telegram将获得Grok通过其应用订阅收入的50%。Telegram在面临法律挑战和政府审查之际，财务状况良好，计划通过发行五年期债券融资至少15亿美元。2024年，Telegram扭亏为盈，实现5.4亿美元利润，预计2025年利润将超过7亿美元。Grok AI将为Telegram用户提供更强大的信息搜索、消息起草等功能，并可能带来新的盈利机会。然而，Telegram首席执行官Pavel Durov面临多项指控，部分政府也对该平台的内容监管表示担忧。

🤝Telegram与xAI达成合作，xAI投资3亿美元，将Grok AI整合到Telegram平台，Telegram将获得Grok订阅收入分成。

💰Telegram财务状况良好，计划发行五年期债券融资至少15亿美元，用于回购部分债务和支持公司发展。2024年实现盈利，预计未来利润将持续增长。

🤖Grok AI将为Telegram用户提供信息搜索、消息起草等智能化服务，提升用户体验，并为Telegram带来新的盈利机会，与Meta的WhatsApp竞争。

⚖️Telegram首席执行官Pavel Durov面临多项法律指控，包括传播儿童剥削材料和毒品贩运等，同时一些政府对Telegram的内容监管表示担忧，甚至采取封锁措施。

Telegram has forged a deal with Elon Musk’s xAI to weave Grok AI into the fabric of the encrypted messaging platform.

This isn’t just a friendly collaboration; xAI is putting serious money on the table – a cool $300 million, a mix of hard cash and equity. And for Telegram, they’ll pocket 50% of any subscription money Grok pulls in through their app.

This leap into the world of AI couldn’t come at a more interesting time for Telegram. While CEO Pavel Durov is wrestling with some pretty serious legal headaches, and governments in certain corners of the globe are giving the platform the side-eye, the company’s bank balance is looking healthy.

In fact, Telegram is gearing up to raise at least $1.5 billion by issuing five-year bonds. With a rather tempting 9% yield, these bonds are also designed to help buy back some of the debt from their 2021 bond issue. It seems big-name investors like BlackRock, Mubadala, and Citadel are still keen, suggesting they see a bright future for the messaging service.

And the numbers do tell a story of a significant comeback. Cast your mind back to 2023, and Telegram was nursing a $173 million loss. Fast forward to 2024, and they’d flipped that on its head, banking a $540 million profit from $1.4 billion in revenue. They’re not stopping there either, with optimistic forecasts for 2025 pointing to profits north of $700 million from a $2 billion revenue pot.

So, what will Grok actually do for Telegram users? The hope is that xAI’s conversational AI will bring a whole new layer of smarts to the platform. This includes supercharged information searching, help with drafting messages, and all sorts of automated tricks. It’s a play that could help Telegram unlock fresh monetisation opportunities and compete with Meta bringing Llama-powered smarts to WhatsApp.

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

This also strengthens Telegram’s financial… pic.twitter.com/ZPK550AyRV

— Pavel Durov (@durov) May 28, 2025

However, Telegram’s integration of AI is all happening against a pretty dramatic backdrop. Pavel Durov, the man at the company’s helm, has found himself in hot water.

Back in August 2024, Durov was arrested in France and later indicted on a dozen charges. These aren’t minor infringements either; they include serious accusations like complicity in spreading child exploitation material and drug trafficking, all linked to claims that Telegram wasn’t doing enough to police its content.

Durov was initially stuck in France, but by March 2025, he was given the nod to leave the country, at least for a while. What happens next with these legal battles is anyone’s guess, but it’s a massive cloud hanging over the company.

And it’s not just personal legal woes for Durov. Entire governments are starting to lose patience. Vietnam, for instance, has had its Ministry of Science and Technology order internet providers to pull the plug on Telegram. Their reasoning? They say the platform has become a hotbed for crime. 

Vietnamese officials reckon 68% of Telegram channels and groups in the country are up to no good, involved in everything from fraud to drug deals. Telegram, for its part, said it was taken aback by the move, insisting it had always tried to play ball with legal requests from Vietnam.

Back to the xAI partnership, it’s a clear signal of Telegram looking to the future and seeing AI as a core pillar of it. The money involved and the promise of shared revenues show just how much potential both sides see in getting Grok into the hands of Telegram’s millions of users.

The next twelve months will be a real test for Telegram. Can the company innovate its way forward while also showing it can be a responsible player on the global stage?

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