Another day, another publication contributes to the advancement of AI. Axios was the first to report that Reuters is providing Meta’s AI chatbot access to its news content for responses to current events and news queries. This follows the partnership between OpenAI and companies such as Time and Dotdash Meredith, which licensed their property.
In essence, the multi-year agreement enables users in the United States to now receive real-time news details from Meta’s AI chatbot tool. These responses cite and link to the relevant articles from Reuters.
Reuter’s has been collaborating with Meta as a fact-checking partner since 2020, but this agreement represents the company’s inaugural AI news partnership. “We’re always iterating and working to improve our products, and through Meta’s partnership with Reuters, Meta AI can respond to news-related questions with summaries and links to Reuters content,” according to a Meta representative.
The duo have not disclosed whether Meta will be granted access to Reuters’ library in order to train its learning language model, Llama. The exact figures of the deal also aren’t obvious, but sources report that Reuters is receiving compensation for this access. Lionsgate has entered into an agreement with Runway to receive a custom AI model for production and editing. However, money is not the sole form of payment that companies have made in such arrangements with the devil coughs.
