Licensing2025-02-14confirmed
OpenAI × The Guardian
Announced on February 14, 2025, this multi-year deal provides OpenAI with access to The Guardian's journalism for training its large language models. [1, 4] In return, The Guardian receives compensation and its content will be displayed in ChatGPT with summaries and credit. [6] The publisher will also gain access to OpenAI's technology to use in-house. [6]
Price paid
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Not disclosed
Losing bid
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Per unit
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no meaningful ratio
The asset
A multi-year agreement for OpenAI to use The Guardian's journalism to train its models and display attributed content within ChatGPT.
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- news publishing
- Modalities
- text
- Jurisdiction
- UK
What it means if you hold data
This partnership with a major, globally respected news organization adds a high-quality, trusted source to OpenAI's training data. It exemplifies the common structure of AI licensing deals: a combination of cash, content attribution, and technology access.