Wikipedia parent partners with Amazon, Meta, Perplexity on AI access

Wikimedia announced new deals with several artificial intelligence companies in a blog post on Thursday, including Amazon, Meta and Perplexity, as part of the company's 25th anniversary.Through the new partnerships under Wikimedia Enterprise, companies will pay Wikipedia to use their data to help develop and train AI models, instead of web scraping. The partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and Perplexity were formalized over the last year but have not been publicly shared, Wikimedia said."A ...