Although the pace of deals brokered by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, with news organisations appears to have slowed, a fresh agreement has just been announced with The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos.
Arc XP, The Washington Post’s in‑house CMS, was recently folded back into the paper’s technology division and it could gain new or enhanced capabilities through this partnership with Sam Altman’s company.
Equally significant is the fact that the deal involves two tech titans, Bezos on one side and OpenAI on the other, adding another high‑profile alliance to the growing roster of Silicon‑Valley‑backed media experiments.
According to the joint announcement, ChatGPT will prominently surface Post articles in its answers to improve attribution and drive extra traffic to the newspaper’s site.
In return, the Post gains exposure to ChatGPT’s vast audience while OpenAI secures a stream of professionally edited journalism, the reliable data on which its current AI technology depends.
The Post already runs several in‑house AI projects and stresses that the pact is non‑exclusive; it remains LLM‑agnostic and will continue testing other models.
Neither the term nor the value has been disclosed, although comparable licences typically last two to three years and industry estimates put the figure at roughly US $10 million per annum.
This accord joins earlier OpenAI agreements with Schibsted, The Guardian, Condé Nast, Time and others.
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