Licensing2025-04-22reported
OpenAI × The Washington Post
The Washington Post signed its first AI content licensing deal with OpenAI on April 22, 2025. [4] The agreement permits ChatGPT to surface summaries, quotes, and links from the newspaper's articles, but notably does not explicitly mention the use of content for training OpenAI's large language models. [4]
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 content licensing deal allowing ChatGPT to display summaries, quotes, and links to The Washington Post's reporting in response to relevant questions.
The record
- Seller status
- Going concern
- Sector
- news publishing
- Modalities
- text
- Jurisdiction
- US
What it means if you hold data
This deal from a major US newspaper of record is significant for its specific focus on surfacing content in AI responses rather than for model training, potentially outlining a different model for publisher-AI collaborations. [4]