Wikipedia announces AI deals with Amazon, Meta, Perplexity and more

Wikimedia announced A blog post on Thursday announced new deals with several artificial intelligence companies. Amazon, Meta and Astonishment as part of the Company’s 25th anniversary.

Thanks to new partnerships Wikimedia FoundationInstead of web scraping, companies will pay Wikipedia to use their data to help develop and train AI models.

partnerships with Amazon, Meta, MicrosoftWikimedia said Mistral AI and Perplexity were formalized last year but were not publicly disclosed.

“All of these organizations use Wikimedia Enterprise to integrate human-driven information into their platforms at scale,” Wikimedia said in the statement. he said.

Technology companies current partners Ecosia, Pleias, ProRata and GoogleIt was one of Wikimedia Enterprise’s projects First partners of 2022.

“Wikipedia’s knowledge powers productive AI chatbots, search engines, voice assistants and more,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told CNBC. “The long-term future of AI and technology companies depends on supporting projects like Wikipedia, because Wikipedia creates the human knowledge they rely on.”

The AI ​​boom has brought data rights to the fore and raised questions and legal issues around the use of human-generated content on sites like Wikipedia. reddit.

Elon Musk launched Wikipedia’s artificial intelligence-powered rival ‘Grokipedia’ last year.

He has been encouraged by Musk to be less prejudiced and “anti-woke.” All entries in Grokipedia, named after xAI’s large language model Grok, are created by the artificial intelligence model.