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Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users (alternativeto.net)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don't care about all of that.

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

they will be integrating it on service side if I read it correctly so the choice of client would be non-important

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are already agreements that forks are not allowed to remove the premium feature stuff, they could do this to grok as well.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That’s not how the GPL works. Any such agreements would be voluntary.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your non-premium account tries to use a feature available to premium and that doesn't work. Where does the GPL come into equation?

Also they can detect alternative clients and ban them.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Grok UI elements and number of GIFs in the picker are 100% local features clients can choose to ignore.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, so you mean Grok service just being available from TG UI without any authentication from TG being used?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I‘m saying whatever the server asks the client, a client can choose to hide the UI elements. Nothing more, nothing less.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, I mean it wouldn't change anything if Grok were a premium-only feature, apparently this was about ability to turn it off, ok fine.