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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    8 months ago

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

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

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        8 months ago

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