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The Washington Post and OpenAI have announced a “strategic partnership” that will “make high-quality news more accessible in ChatGPT,” according to a Washington Post press release.
OpenAI has already made partnerships with over 20 other news publishers, including News Corp, Business Insider parent company The Associated Press, Axel Springer, Condé Nast, the Financial Times, Future, and Hearst. The Verge’s parent company, Vox Media, also partners with OpenAI.
With the Washington Post partnership, ChatGPT will display summaries, quotes, and links to original reporting from The Post in response to relevant questions,” per the press release. The Washington Post adds that “ChatGPT will highlight The Post’s journalism across politics, global affairs, business, technology, and more, always with clear attribution and direct links to full articles so people can explore topics in greater depth and context.”
“Ensuring ChatGPT users have our impactful reporting at their fingertips builds on our commitment to provide access where, how and when our audiences want it,” The Washington Post’s Peter Elkins-Williams, head of global partnerships, says in the press release.
OpenAI’s Varun Shetty, the company’s head of media partnerships, says in the release that “more than 500 million people use ChatGPT each week to get answers to all kinds of questions.” The company hit the 400 million weekly active user mark in February.
