OpenAI Signs Content Deals With The Atlantic and Vox Media: Here’s What It Means

The deal will give OpenAI access to their news content and archives to train its large language models.

On Wednesday, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, announced that it has signed content and product partnerships with The Atlantic and Vox Media. These partnerships will help the artificial intelligence firm enhance and train its products.

Why it’s important?

The agreements with The Atlantic and Vox Media follow similar deals with several other media companies, providing OpenAI access to their news content and archives for training its large language models.

These partnerships are essential for training AI models and can also be profitable for news publishers, who have traditionally missed out on the profits that internet giants make from distributing their content.

Last week, OpenAI entered into an agreement with News Corp, the media conglomerate and owner of the Wall Street Journal.

Context

Vox Media, which owns The Verge and Vulture among other properties, stated that OpenAI will assist the company in developing products for its consumers and advertising partners.

According to a statement from Vox Media, OpenAI will gain access to Vox Media’s archives, helping the Microsoft-backed company improve its technology and enhance the output of its popular chatbot, ChatGPT.

Additionally, The Atlantic announced a similar agreement, granting OpenAI access to its content.