xAI Grok is available at no extra cost to about ten million Telegram Premium users. Tracking the website and download activity, xAI Grok 3 appears to moving into second place behind OpenAI and ChatGPT.
Telegram just hit 1 billion monthly active users—and now, it’s getting Grok AI.
𝕏 to Telegram – Grok’s first major expansion beyond 𝕏 is here.
Grok 3 is able to replace Google search for many activities.
In late February 2025, U.S. mobile app downloads of Grok during the week of Grok 3’s release increased more than 10x each compared to the previous week. Daily active users for Grok’s U.S. app soared more than 260% last week, meanwhile, while global daily active users climbed 5x week-over-week.
Grok’s usage is surging, with web visits up from 627k to 4.5M and app downloads 10x higher post-Grok-3.
Grok has been ranking between the 2nd and 5th best free app download on apple iphones and ipads.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT: 400 million weekly active users. 1.5 billion active monthly users of the company’s ChatGPT models, of which 15.5 million are paying subscribers (Plus, Team, Enterprise).
Microsoft’s Copilot has 27 million active monthly users, Google’s Gemini has 65 million, Anthropic 10 million, and Perplexity 19 million monthly active users.
In February 2025, after the release of the Grok-3 model, Grok’s AI recorded 25.82 million total monthly visits (+436% compared to January 2025). Grok’s high download rate and continued activity in March and now the integration of Telegram in April should enable xAI to pass 100 million move into second place behind OpenAI ChatGPT.
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