Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
The AI partnerships allow companies to access the org's content, like Wikipedia, at scale.
TL;DR
- Wikimedia Foundation is celebrating its 25th birthday.
- New partnerships have been formed with AI tech companies who are customers of Wikimedia Enterprise.
- Wikimedia Enterprise allows large-scale reuse and distribution of Wikimedia project content.
- New partners include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity, in addition to previously announced Google partnership.
- These deals provide a revenue stream to sustain Wikipedia in the age of AI.
- Wikipedia is among the top-ten most-visited websites globally.
- The foundation launched a birthday campaign including a docuseries, a time capsule, and a livestreamed event.
- Recent advances in tech infrastructure, AI approach, and new experiments were also highlighted.