{"id":1400,"date":"2025-05-29T14:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/elon-musk-denies-telegram-deal-after-durov-announces-300m-xa-integration\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:55:48","slug":"elon-musk-denies-telegram-deal-after-durov-announces-300m-xa-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/elon-musk-denies-telegram-deal-after-durov-announces-300m-xa-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk denies Telegram deal after Durov announces $300m xA integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">Telegram\u2019s proposed partnership with Elon Musk\u2019s xAI is facing uncertainty after Musk publicly denied that any agreement has been finalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes just hours after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/28\/elon-musk-xai-telegram-grok.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> what appeared to be a $300 million deal to integrate xAI\u2019s Grok chatbot into the messaging app.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Durov said the two companies had agreed \u201cin principle\u201d to a one-year partnership. He claimed the deal included a $300 million cash-and-equity investment from xAI, plus 50% of the subscription revenue generated from Grok within Telegram.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grok would reportedly be integrated across Telegram\u2019s apps this summer, enabling AI features such as smart search, message rewriting, and content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Musk\u2019s rebuttal\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>But in a brief comment on X, Musk <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1927839555828220165\" target=\"_blank\">refuted<\/a> Durov\u2019s announcement: \u201cNo deal has been signed.\u201d Following Musk\u2019s rebuttal, Durov walked back the certainty of his statement, saying the agreement was still pending final documentation.<\/p>\n<p>The confusion comes at a critical time for Telegram. The platform recently announced plans to raise $1.5 billion in a bond sale, reportedly involving institutional investors such as Citadel, BlackRock, and Mubadala.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Durov had said the Grok partnership would help bolster Telegram\u2019s financial position following its 2024 profit of $540 million.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of a finalized deal, Toncoin (TON), Telegram\u2019s associated crypto token, initially jumped nearly 19% on the news before retreating after Musk\u2019s response.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram\u2019s proposed partnership with Elon Musk\u2019s xAI is facing uncertainty after Musk publicly denied that any agreement has been finalized.\u00a0 This comes just hours after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}