OpenAI announce We have reached a cooperation with the Financial Times to enable its large language model to gain access to articles in the Financial Times.
As part of the cooperation, the two companies will provide ChatGPT users with part of the content of the Financial Times. OpenAI means that, Through this cooperation, ChatGPT users will be able to see "Selected abstracts, quotes and links to Financial Times news reports To respond to related queries ”。 However, OpenAI did not specify when the content can be accessed or in which versions of ChatGPT.
In addition to introducing Financial Times articles into chat robots, OpenAI will also use these contents to train new AI models. OpenAI did not disclose the terms of the transaction with the Financial Times. Last December, when working with Axel Springer Signed After a similar license agreement, the Wall Street Journal Reported that The contract is expected to bring "considerable income" to the German publisher.
Like the Financial Times, Axel Springer grants OpenAI the right to display selected article abstracts in ChatGPT and train LLM on their content. In addition, OpenAI has signed similar license agreements with several other media companies, such as Le Monde, Prisa Media, headquartered in Madrid, and the Associated Press 。
The company sent TechCrunch It was revealed that about a dozen such license agreements had been signed so far, and "more" were planned to be signed in the future.
OpenAI's move may prompt competitors to follow suit. Google is also investing heavily to expand the amount of text available in its language model; Earlier this year, it disclosed an agreement with Reddit to authorize the content of the social network to be used in AI training projects. as report goes, The contract is worth more than $60 million annually.
In the cooperation between OpenAI and the Financial Times, content authorization is only part of the transaction. The two companies will also cooperate to develop new AI functions for newspaper readers. At the end of last month, the Financial Times launched a generative AI function that enables users to use natural language prompts to browse their files.
