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.
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.
Well if anything such obviously advertising him as a fighter against the regime, while Telegram is not banned in Russia, is definitively certain for you - just go on.
Telegram is not banned in Russia in the same way YouTube isn’t. They fight it by attempting to decrease service quality, prompting users to switch platforms. In last few months connectivity without VPN degraded noticeably. It just happens that since it’s official ban (2018-2020) telegram evolved to be pretty resilient to blocking, and it’s easier to declare “yeah we signed a deal with Durov he works with us now, unbanned” than look like fools while blocking 1% of all IPv4 addresses (im not kidding) with no result.
Telegram is not banned in Ukraine either. There also are no Ukrainian sections against the founder.
I also did not call him a fighter against the regime. You have a vivid imagination.
Russia tried blocking Telegram once but Telegram relies on AWS and Google Cloud, so the blocking attempt backfired, leading to half the internet unusable in Russia, leading to quick back paddling by the Kremlin.
Since Telegram is not banned in either country, it’s the best source for unfiltered news from the front.
It wasn’t “half the internet unusable”. I live in Russia, please stop dramatizing.
It was blocked well enough, but Russian state officials had their unofficial channels there for all that time.
Considering “the founder’s” history, I’d assume Telegram to be Russian government-compromised by default.
Also it’s not a source of news at all. That’s like calling “the Internet” your source. It’s a crowd. Some channels are better than others, but ultimately it can be compared to Facebook.
Everything behind the same AWS and Google IPs which is a lot.
So you pay taxes to Putin. Good to know who actually helps funding the regime.
I suggest you go someplace else.
I won’t take this from a jerk from likely one of the countries buying fossil fuels from said regime, that have also supported it after a few falsified elections starting in 1996, which is also the year I was born.
And of course “paying taxes to Putin” can’t be even compared to what TG is doing, so just shut up and go do something you know how to do, like I dunno what.