Another day, another publication contributes to the rise of AI as Time and Dotdash Meredith partnered with OpenAI to license their property, and now Reuters is giving Meta’s AI chatbot access to its news content for responses to current events and news questions, Axios first reported. Essentially, the multi-year deal allows users in the US to now receive real-time news details from Meta’s AI chatbot tool, citing and linking out to Reuters’ relevant stories. This deal marks Meta’s first AI news deal, while Reuters has been working with the company as a fact-checking partner since 2020. The specifics of whether Meta will get access to Reuters’ library to train its learning language model, Llama, and the exact figures of the compensation for this access remain undisclosed, but sources indicate that Reuters is being compensated for the partnership. Money aside, other companies like Lionsgate have made deals with AI companies for custom models, like the agreement with Runway for production and editing purposes.
