OpenAI Secures Major Content Partnership with Hearst
Hearst's extensive archives will be integrated into OpenAI's products, enhancing the availability of reliable information.
- Hearst has licensed content from over 60 publications, including Cosmopolitan and the San Francisco Chronicle, to OpenAI.
- The partnership will enable OpenAI's ChatGPT to provide users with cited and linked content from Hearst's archives.
- Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it follows OpenAI's recent $6.6 billion funding round.
- The agreement is part of a broader trend of media companies partnering with AI firms amid ongoing copyright lawsuits.
- OpenAI has previously signed similar deals with other major media organizations like Condé Nast and News Corp.