[z3dd]

oh, cause telegram is not a chat app, it's Facebook of eastern Europe

[game_the0ry]

And how is the data of Eastern Europe as valuable as xAI is paying for it?

[XorNot]

AI training data is in short supply from new sources. Chat and group apps are handy for many reasons, but one obvious one is people posting images with caption text they provide basically does your image tagging for free (remember the original big image model was just a list of URLS with useful alt-text descriptions).

[ZeroTalent]

$300M is not a lot of money in this situation

[bearjaws]

Used pretty heavily by island nations and LATAM.