The move is seen as an effort by OpenAI to offer real-time knowledge, a feature that has been a major critique of ChatGPT. By obtaining recent and breaking news content from Axel Springer's titles, OpenAI aims to offer a comparable real-time information service to Elon Musk's xAI's chatbot product, Grok, and other news outlets.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI is partnering with German media company Axel Springer to provide summaries of the latter's articles and other journalistic content to ChatGPT users.
- OpenAI is reportedly paying "tens of millions of euros a year" for this access to human-authored news.
- This partnership is the biggest yet for OpenAI's journalism aspirations, following deals with the Associated Press and the American Journalism Project.
- By obtaining recent and breaking news content from Axel Springer, OpenAI aims to offer a realtime information service, addressing critiques of ChatGPT's lack of realtime knowledge.