OpenAI has signed a significant licensing agreement with the major European media conglomerate Axel Springer 🌐

📰 This agreement gives OpenAI access to news from well-known media such as Politico, Business Insider, Bild, and Welt for AI training and creating news summaries in ChatGPT. This marks an important milestone, as media companies require compensation for using their content.

ChatGPT users will receive brief news summaries. These summaries will include author credits, links to full articles, and access to paid content. According to a source familiar with the deal, the content will get a "favorable position" in ChatGPT search results to help drive traffic and subscription revenue to Axel Springer brands.

Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI:
"This partnership with Axel Springer will help provide people with new ways to access quality, real-time news content through our AI tools. We are deeply committed to working with publishers and creators around the world and ensuring they benefit from advanced AI technology and new revenue models."

The news summaries will be available in ChatGPT immediately after publishing an article. The Axel Springer content will begin appearing in the first quarter of 2024.

OpenAI will also pay for Axel Springer's content, including archival material for training large language models like GPT-4.

The deal with Axel Springer is the second between OpenAI and a major news publisher. In July, OpenAI struck a deal with the Associated Press, allowing it to license AP's news archive for training its generative AI models.

Other deals may follow. News Corp, which owns newspapers like The Wall Street Journal and New York Post in the USA, The Times, and The Sun in the UK, is in "preliminary talks" about using its content in AI.

Source
https://openai.com/blog/axel-springer-partnership

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