🏆 The International Olympiad in AI finished yesterday in Astana.

🇷🇺 The Russian team took first place in the team competition, and Artem Gorokhov from my home city won the individual event. Well done! 💪

🇰🇿 I'm equally happy for the host country, Kazakhstan, whose Dauzhan Beketov took the second-highest individual score.👏

📩We're in touch with the organizers to deliver the winners' prizes from Telegram ($106,500+) securely next week.

Congratulations to all the winners! 🏆

🇺🇿 The 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics starts today in Tashkent.

🏆 The IOI is the ultimate coding competition for high-school students. Years ago, many members of the Telegram team won medals there.

🤝 To support the best young programmers in the world, Telegram will award the 235 winners exclusive digital collectibles — Algorithm Cups — worth at least $117,000 in total.

🕌 It’s fitting that IOI is hosted in Uzbekistan — the homeland of Al-Khwarizmi, the father of algebra whose name became the word “algorithm."

Let the best algorithm win! 💪

1️⃣3️⃣ Telegram turns 13 today.

For over half that time — the past 7,5 years — it's been one of the 10 most downloaded mobile apps in the world.

A whole generation has grown up with it 💪

🎂 Happy birthday, Telegram!

🏆 The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) ends today.

🇷🇺Students from Moscow and St. Petersburg won 2🥇gold and 2🥈silver medals — well done, Vladislav Zhiganov (#2 overall!), Maksim Kravchenko, Sergei Mukhanov and Vladimir Zvezdin!

🇺🇦Ukraine won 3 medals: 🥇 gold for Vladyslav Khalin, and 2🥈 silver for Illia Shevchenko and Daria Perekopska 💪

🇧🇾 Belarus took 1🥇gold and 1🥈silver, won by Kiryl Kardash and Fiodar Sashko, plus two bronze medals from their teammates.

🇰🇿Kazakhstan did well too, winning 1🥇gold and 3🥈silver medals to finish in the top five as a team, while Maksim Tsoy came #5 overall.

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan picked up 2🥈 silver and 2🥉 bronze medals! 🤝

🇺🇿Uzbekistan, the host country, put on a great showing: 1🥈 silver for Jakhonali Khaydaraliyev and 3🥉bronze medals.

🇨🇳The strongest results of all, though, came from China 👏

At today's award ceremony, the IOI organizers are giving the 188 Algorithm Cups 🎁🎁🎁 to the winners. The organizers of the sister olympiad, IOAI, are sending the 220 Intelligence Cups 🏆🏆🏆 to their winners remotely.

These are the only digital collectibles Telegram has issued this year, so they could end up worth much more than the guaranteed $1,000 for gold.

We're proud to support the brightest young programmers of our time 🧠

💎 Telegram has applied for the .gram domain zone.

If the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains.

🖥 For example, @durov would get durov.gram, and @monk would get monk.gram.

Users would be able to set up their interactive websites hosted by Telegram — just by typing one prompt ✨