Wikipedia opens paid licensing for AI training with major tech firms

The Wikimedia Foundation expanded Wikimedia Enterprise to offer paid licensing of Wikipedia content to major tech firms—Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI—letting them use Wikipedia’s 65 million articles to train AI models, joining Google's existing deal. The move monetizes API access to offset rising infrastructure costs as AI scrapes increase, while editors push back on AI-generated content and bot traffic remains a concern.