Deals
OpenAI to Pay Axel Springer Tens of Millions to Use News Content
- Politico and Business Insider content to help build AI tools
- ChatGPT to use news to generate answers to user prompts
OpenAI will pay Axel Springer for articles and other content from publications that include Politico, Business Insider, and European properties Bild and Die Welt.
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has agreed to pay Axel Springer SE tens of millions of euros for the right to use the media giant’s news articles and content to build its artificial intelligence systems.
OpenAI agreed to the payment as part of a three-year deal with the Berlin-based news publisher, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation who asked not to be identified because the financial terms aren’t public.