OpenAI: OpenAI signs content deal with Condé Nast

Led by Sam Altman Open AI On Tuesday he announced a multi-year agreement association with Condé Nast to display content from its brands like Vogue and The New Yorker within the AI Homeproducts, including the ChatGPT and SearchGPT prototypes.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

OpenAI has signed similar deals with Time magazine, the Financial Times, Business Insider owner Axel Springer, French newspaper Le Monde and Spain’s Prisa Media in recent months.

While such content partnerships are essential for training AI models, some media organizations such as the New York Times and The Intercept had sued the Microsoft-backed firm over copyright issues associated with their works.

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s chief operating officer, said the company is committed to working with Conde Nast and other news publishers to “ensure that as AI plays a larger role in news discovery and delivery, it maintains accuracy, integrity and respect for quality reporting.”

News and digital media have faced major challenges over the past decade as many technology companies eroded publishers’ ability to monetize content, Conde Nast chief executive Roger Lynch said in a memo to employees.

“Our partnership with OpenAI is starting to offset some of that revenue,” Lynch said. OpenAI launched its artificial intelligence-powered search engine SearchGPT in July, with real-time access to information from across the internet, in territory long dominated by Google.

The company said Tuesday it was working with its news partners to gather feedback and insights on SearchGPT’s design and performance.