Wikipedia signs paid-data deals with AI firms to fund its infrastructure
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The Wikimedia Foundation has begun paid data-access deals with AI firms including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity to monetize Wikipedia’s data and help cover rising infrastructure costs from automated scraping, signaling a shift from donation-based funding to enterprise partnerships; the foundation also envisions AI tools to assist editors and a conversational search experience that cites verified text.
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