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.