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As part of the agreement, Telegram will receive $300 million in cash and equity from xAI. Telegram will also receive 50 percent of revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via its platform.

Edit: Looks like the deal changed rather quickly.

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[โ€“] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Anyone still uses Telegram? What is really their selling point? We already got WhatsApp and Signal.

[โ€“] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

by my experience mostly straight eastern europeans. everyone else either started on something else or they moved off telegram because they didn't feel like they could trust it

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