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Amazon and New York Times Agree on $20–25 Million Annual AI Licensing Deal

It grants Amazon a license to Times journalism for AI model training.

The New York Times building in Manhattan, left, and Amazon headquarters in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photos / Kurt Schlosser)
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Overview

  • Under the multiyear agreement, Amazon will pay between $20 million and $25 million per year, representing about 1 percent of the Times’ 2024 revenue.
  • The deal covers daily news articles as well as specialty features from NYT Cooking and The Athletic for use in Amazon’s AI systems.
  • Licensed content may be used to train foundation models and supply summaries or excerpts within Amazon services like Alexa.
  • This is the first AI‐related licensing arrangement for both Amazon and the Times, marking a new revenue stream for the publisher.
  • The pact comes as the Times pursues copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft and follows similar multimillion-dollar deals by other AI developers.