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Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users (alternativeto.net)
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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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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weird comparison.

WhatsApp is a kinda secure messaging app - small groupchats and personal chats first.

Signal is a secure messaging app - small groupchat and personal chats only.

TG is an app for big groupchats and channels, with dozens of people writing to one chat simultaneously, discussing big posts etc. It's, once again, like IRC, just proprietary, with history and sharing files. Or like a social network without friends and feeds.

Honestly I can't even blame TG for enshittificatory practices, because it gives so much more freedom to use it however one wants than the others. Even though I prefer to blame everything. All these things have taken a lot of work to create.

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TG is an app for big groupchats and channels

You make it sound like that's the sole purpose. There are 1:1 chats in Telegram and people actively use them. Everything else builds on top of that.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

That's the only important advantage over anything else.