Licensing2026-01-22confirmed
Meta AI × IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a leading technical professional organization, licensed the full text of its engineering and computer science conference proceedings to Meta AI. The $15 million deal provides Meta with high-quality technical content for pre-training its AI models. [11]
Price paid
$15M
Losing bid
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Per unit
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no meaningful ratio
The asset
A full-text licensing deal for engineering and computer science proceedings for model pre-training.
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- technical professional organization / publisher
- Modalities
- text
What it means if you hold data
This transaction shows the high value placed on specialized, technical conference proceedings for training AI models in STEM fields. It highlights how professional organizations that are also major publishers can leverage their niche, high-quality content archives.