{"id":16995,"date":"2026-01-15T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/meta-signs-content-deal-with-wikimedia-to-power-ai-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:21:00","slug":"meta-signs-content-deal-with-wikimedia-to-power-ai-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/meta-signs-content-deal-with-wikimedia-to-power-ai-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"#\n                Meta Signs Content Deal with Wikimedia to Power AI Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 eztoc-toggle-hide-by-default' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/meta-signs-content-deal-with-wikimedia-to-power-ai-projects\/#Meta_Signs_Content_Deal_with_Wikimedia_to_Power_AI_Projects\" >Meta Signs Content Deal with Wikimedia to Power AI Projects<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Meta_Signs_Content_Deal_with_Wikimedia_to_Power_AI_Projects\"><\/span>\n                Meta Signs Content Deal with Wikimedia to Power AI Projects<br \/>\n            <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>AI projects are only as good as the data sources they can access, and as publishers become more aware of the opportunities that they have to license their work to specific AI providers, the race is heating up to secure access contracts, and ensure that your AI bot is more informed and accurate than the other.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Today, Wikimedia Foundation, the group in charge of Wikipedia, has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.wikimedia.com\/blog\/wikipedia-25-enterprise-partners\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1\">announced new access deals<\/a> with <span>Amazon<\/span>,\u00a0<span>Meta<\/span>,\u00a0<span>Microsoft<\/span>,\u00a0<span>Mistral AI<\/span>, and <span><span>Perplexity, which will enable these AI projects to gain more direct access to Wikipedia info to power their AI systems. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>As per <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.wikimedia.com\/blog\/wikipedia-25-enterprise-partners\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1\">Wikimedia<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><strong><em><span><span><span><span><span>\u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><em><span><span><span><span>In the AI era, Wikipedia\u2019s human-created and curated knowledge has <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span><span><span>never been more valuable<span>. Today, Wikipedia is among the top-ten most-visited global websites, and it is the only one to be run by a nonprofit. Global audiences view more than 65 million articles in over 300 languages nearly 15 billion times every month, and its knowledge powers generative AI chatbots, search engines, voice assistants, and more. Wikipedia remains one of the highest-quality datasets for training Large Language Models.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Wikimedia\u2019s Enterprise APIs enable commercial deals linked to Wikipedia data, which provide another form of income for the non-profit repository. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>And now, Wikimedia will be securing more of that funding from these AI projects, as the platforms look to sure up their data inputs to maintain their AI tools.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Information supply is becoming a bigger consideration, with all the big players signing access deals with the major publishers. OpenAI, for example, now has deals in place with news publishers like <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/investors.newscorp.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/news-corp-and-openai-sign-landmark-multi-year-global-partnership\" style=\"color:#0563c1\"><span><span><span><span>News Corp<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span>\u00a0and <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/20\/conde-nast-open-ai-deal\" style=\"color:#0563c1\"><span><span><span><span>Conde Naste<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span>, while it also recently signed a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/disney-sora-agreement\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1\"><span>content licensing partnership with Disney<\/span><\/a> for image generation. Meta has signed deals with several major publications, including CNN, Fox News, People and more, while xAI relies on real-time data from X to power its responses.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The need for information is what\u2019s sparked speculation that OpenAI may look to acquire Pinterest, because without an owned data source, it\u2019s going to be increasingly hard for these projects to go it alone, and develop their own AI offerings. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>That was further underlined recently, when <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/reddit-sues-perplexity-scraping-data-train-ai-system-2025-10-22\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1\">Reddit sued several major AI projects for data scraping<\/a>, as it looks to protect its data sources.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Having access to trusted, vetted, verified info is crucial to ensuring the accuracy of AI answers, and that\u2019s likely to price many smaller AI players out of the market, as the big platforms win exclusive rights to more content. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Really, this underlines the ongoing value of journalism, and of platforms that can provide vetted data. Which may well ensure that original, researched content isn\u2019t superseded by AI generators, as AI tools won\u2019t work without such inputs.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Does that mean that original, well-researched content is actually of more value in the AI era?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>I mean, someone\u2019s gotta\u2019 be doing the work, right?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Social Media<\/a><\/span> category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/news\/meta-signs-content-deal-with-wikimedia-to-power-ai-projects\/809780\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Signs Content Deal with Wikimedia to Power AI Projects AI projects are only as good as the data sources they can access, and as publishers become more aware of the opportunities that they have to license their work to specific AI providers, the race is heating up to secure access contracts, and ensure that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/fpMtOXboa2ysh2EJ0EnOAr6wFg-iijvk5GF51dgEOYw\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9tZXRhX3dpa2ltZWRpYS5wbmc=.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1456],"class_list":["post-16995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media","tag-social-media-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yohrt.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}