The musk Khai agrees to close the telegram as the billionaire ‘bromance’ blossom

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Elon Musk, Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov, Xai’s Grock Chatbot’u 1bn user of the messenger, two mercury billionaire, a sign of a signing of the blossoming partnership between the billionaire.

As part of a single annual agreement, the telegram is sold from Xai to $ 300 million and capital, as well as the income from Khai subscribers, including Durov write On Wednesday X and telegram. Then the Musk wrote that a transaction was not “signed”, but Durov said that they agreed on the grounds.

Musk and Durov recently grows in Paris, according to several recently, according to a few people familiar with the issue, their technical “bromas”. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Russian origin Telegram boss A passion for free expression and opposition to what they saw as a government censor.

Xai’s Telegram Tie-up is the first great expansion to a new social media service outside the MUSC’s X platform for the artificial intelligence group. Following last week New Alliance with MicrosoftThis is a Khai preparing the XAI through the AZURE cloud computing platform.

Xai received X 45 billion dollars in March. Telegram will hold a share in the 13th of the agreements of two companies.

The partnership will have several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways several ways in several ways in several ways in several ways.

Last week, the Financial Times, a bond offer of the telegram to retrieve the existing debt, said he submitted a $ 1.5 billion offer. According to an investor-shared presentation and Seen by ftThe company earned $ 1.4 billion in revenue in 2024, a year ago 343 mln.

Durov recommends rapid growth despite being detained by the French authorities last year. An official investigation was conducted in the telegram platform for the crime of telegram to eliminate the crime, including children’s violence and terror. Although the investigation continues, the judges ordered him to stay in France, although he allowed him to go to Dubai.

Durov and Musk are aligned with positions in free speech. In recent weeks, Durov openly criticized the French efforts to influence the presidential election in Romania in Russia. He said that the French intelligence service has denied the interrogation of the French intelligence service Nicholas Lerner to close the “Conservative Sounds” channels.

Durov reiterated France when the referees refused to travel there in the Oslo Freedom Forum. Authorities said he asked the telegram to close the channel “Remote protesters and demonstrators”, but he rejected “completely legitimate and rejected.”

He said that in spite of the obvious individual risks I have made these decisions. “

The French Interior Minister did not meet the desire to comment.

Durov’s approach, Brazil, India and Australia, using the Czenzo’s surveys, difficult, Takedown’s surveys, using the X-Takedown inquiries, made a self-proclaimed Muskutist from Playbook, using the PlayBook. Both the EU and Britain have repeatedly accused censorship governments and supported The most right AFD party in Germany.

However, the critics claim that Musk is a voter in the difficulties.

On Sunday, the owner of the X. Durov wrote “Woe” to 220 million followers on Romania’s french intelligence.

Xai and Telegram refused to further comment.