person

Pavel Durov

Telegram founder; arrested in France 2024

Russian-French entrepreneur; founder of VKontakte and Telegram. Arrested in France in August 2024 on charges related to platform moderation; case has shaped global debate on platform liability that extends to AI services.

current Founder, CEO, Telegram

@durov

Strategy positions

Open sourceendorses

Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safety

Argues open and uncensored communication infrastructure is foundational to civil society and should not be sacrificed to AI-content-moderation imperatives.

Outdated laws should not be used to force platforms to police speech automatically. The principle that providers of communication tools are not responsible for individual user actions has to survive the AI era.

¶ articlePavel Durov statement on Telegram and platform liability· Telegram· 2024-09· faithful paraphrase

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Ada Rose Cannon
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W3C web standards advocate; AR/VR engineer
Ali Farhadi
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Allen Institute for AI CEO
Ali Ghodsi
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Databricks co-founder and CEO
Anjney Midha
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Andreessen Horowitz general partner; AI investor
Arthur Mensch
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CEO of Mistral AI; French frontier-model founder
Ce Zhang
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ETH Zürich → University of Chicago; ML systems

Record last updated 2026-04-25.