OpenAI × The Atlantic
The Atlantic and OpenAI announced a partnership to bring the magazine's articles to ChatGPT with attribution and to use its archive for model training. [51, 54] As part of the deal, The Atlantic gains access to OpenAI's technology to help shape its use in news products and to develop its own experimental AI features on a new microsite, Atlantic Labs. [51, 53] Financial terms were not disclosed.
The asset
A partnership for OpenAI to license The Atlantic's content archive for training AI models and surfacing attributed content in its products, while collaborating on new AI-powered product development.
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- magazine and digital publishing
- Modalities
- text
- Jurisdiction
- US
What it means if you hold data
This deal with a prestigious, long-standing publication emphasizes the value of a deep, high-quality archive for AI. It also shows a publisher using a licensing deal as an opportunity to gain 'inside the tent' access to shape future AI news tools and experiment with AI-native products.