Tech Companies Pay Wikimedia Foundation for Premium Wikipedia Access Through Enterprise Program
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Emma Roth
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Summary
Major tech companies including Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI are paying the Wikimedia Foundation for premium access to Wikipedia's content through the Wikimedia Enterprise program. This initiative provides these companies with a tuned version of Wikipedia's API for AI training and other enterprise uses, announced as part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary celebrations.
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The partnerships are part of Wikimedia Enterprise, an initiative launched in 2021 that gives large companies access to a premium version of Wikipedia's API for a fee.
Lane Becker, the Wikimedia Foundation's senior director of earned revenue, tells The Verge that the program offers a version of Wikipedia 'tuned' for co
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit's projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.
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