Amazon has agreed to pay at least $ 20 million to the New York Times Company for the right to use his journalism to feed Tech veterans. artificial intelligence Captains.
The deal between the two companies was first announced in May but Wall Street Journal Informed Details of payment scheme on Wednesday.
As part of the agreement, Times will allow Amazon to use editorial content from athletic for its daily journalism, NYT cooking and AI-related uses.
These include Amazon products and services such as Alexa, and Amazon’s proprietary Foundation models, training for companies, such as Amazon products and services for the real -time performance of summations and time articles within the services. Said in a joint statement Before this summer.
The payment of $ 20 million is a decline in the bucket for Amazon, which is one of the world’s largest technology and media companies, with a market cap of over $ 2 trillion. For Times, the Journal represents one percent of the company’s operating budget for $ 20 million 2024, said the journal.
The news of payment comes as time Lives in litigation With Microsoft and Openai on what the news outlet says is related to the use of its content in copyright violations chat. A judge ruled on the spring that the case of The Times against Openai could proceed.
Amazon was founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post.