The Economist, the Financial Times and Dow Jones & Co. are licensing their content to private large language models, reports Jessica Davies of Digiday.
Davies reports, “The Economist is among those to start licensing its content this way — having opened its API to corporate clients with their own data ring-fenced LLMs this August.
“The Financial Times has also opened its archive to enterprise clients’ private LLMs. Meanwhile, Dow Jones’ Factiva unit licenses to around 30,000 news publishers across the globe and resells the content to its own enterprise clients for B2B purposes, including the creation of ring-fenced, private LLMs that RAG content from the publisher network.
“Opening its API gives The Economist’s enterprise clients the ability to make use of its content in a more versatile way than simply reading articles in an app or on its website, according to The Economist’s president Luke Bradley-Jones.”
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