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Same as OpenAI paying Apple to integrate ChatGPT with Siri/iPhone.

Apple has the users. As does Telegram. Of course, non-paying users are a loss-leader, but some portion of them will convert to premium users.

They’re paying for distribution. And maybe mindshare.

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OpenAI is not paying Apple though. Only money exchange that happens is the cut Apple takes of the subscriptions.

But then I suppose it’s also payment-in-kind if they are serving the (non-premium) iPhone requests for free.

Could you share a source for the OpenAI deal?

What I could find is that iPhone users get it for free regardless:

https://openai.com/index/openai-and-apple-announce-partnersh...

> The ChatGPT integration, powered by GPT‑4o, will come to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS later this year. Users can access it for free without creating an account, and ChatGPT subscribers can connect their accounts and access paid features right from these experiences.

Or Google paying Apple 20 billion dollars to be the default search engine in Apple devices

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