"Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. The companies include Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, and France's Mistral AI. As part of the series of licensing deals, revealed Thursday by Wikipedia's operator the Wikimedia Foundation, the AI developers are joining Wikimedia's Enterprise program, which provides direct access to its collection of over 65 million articles."
"Using Wikipedia and its contents is of course free, but the official program allows quicker access at a "volume and speed designed specifically" for "large-scale reusers and distributors," like AI chatbots. Wikipedia had already agreed a licensing deal with Google in 2022, and also signed deals with smaller AI firms like the search engine Ecosia. Now, with the new slew of deals, Wikipedia has partnered up with every big name in town,"
Wikipedia signed licensing deals with Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, France's Mistral AI and other firms to join the Wikimedia Enterprise program. The program provides direct, faster access to a collection of over 65 million articles at volume and speed tailored for large-scale reusers and distributors such as AI chatbots. The paid partnerships build on an earlier 2022 deal with Google and agreements with smaller firms like Ecosia. Wikipedia expects commercial partnerships to help recoup costs incurred from extensive scraping and to offset revenue losses as users increasingly rely on chatbots. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
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