Microsoft and Meta will pay Wikipedia to train AI on its content
Wikipedia has announced partnerships with several major technology companies, including Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, that will allow the nonprofit project to monetize its content.
Wikipedia has announced partnerships with several major technology companies, including Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, that will allow the nonprofit project to monetize its content.
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopedia, said it had signed deals with AI startup Perplexity and French company Mistral AI over the past year, joining Meta and Amazon, Reuters reports .
Wikipedia has 65 million articles in over 300 languages. But the massive collection of the online encyclopedia’s vast amount of freely available knowledge by companies to train AI has led to a sharp increase in the load on its servers. As a result, the costs of the non-profit organization, whose main source of income is small donations from ordinary people, have increased.
Wikipedia is promoting a paid service for businesses: companies pay for access to data for AI, in return receiving structured information tailored to their vast computing needs.
“Wikipedia is a critical component of these tech companies’ operations, and they need to figure out how to support it financially,” Lane Becker, president of Wikimedia Enterprise, told Reuters. “It took us a while to figure out what kind of feature set and capabilities to offer to move these companies from our free platform to a commercial one… but all of our partners in the tech giants really understand the need to make a commitment to support Wikipedia.”
“Access to high-quality, trusted information is at the heart of our vision for the future of AI at Microsoft… Together with Wikimedia, we are helping to create a sustainable content ecosystem for the ‘AI-era internet’ where the work of creators is valued,” said Microsoft Corporate Vice President Tim Frank.
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