Another day, another publication contributing to the rise of AI. First, the likes of Time and Dotdash Meredith partnered with OpenAI to license their assets, and now Reuters is giving Meta’s AI chatbot access to news content to answer current events and news questions. It was first reported by Axios.
Essentially, the multi-year agreement will allow users in the US to receive real-time news details from Meta’s AI chatbot tool, and these answers will be provided in the form of citations and links to related articles from Reuters .
The deal marks Meta’s first AI news deal, although Reuters has been working with the company as a fact-checking partner since 2020. “We are constantly iterating and working to improve our products, and through the partnership between Meta and Reuters, Meta AI can address problems such as:” News-related questions will be answered with an overview and links to Reuters content. included,” a Mehta spokesperson said.
The pair did not say whether Meta would have access to Reuters’ libraries to train its learning language model, Llama. Exact figures for the deal are also not clear, but sources report that Reuters receives compensation for this access. Money isn’t the only way companies pay for these devilish deals – *cough* AI (Lionsgate receives custom AI models for production and editing in its Runway deal) .
