Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI person joined Google successful paying the Wikimedia Foundation for entree to its projects, including Wikipedia's immense postulation of articles. The Wikimedia Foundation announced the quality arsenic portion of Wikipedia's 25th day connected Thursday.

The partnerships are portion of Wikimedia Enterprise, an inaugural launched successful 2021 that gives ample companies entree to a premium mentation of Wikipedia's API for a fee. Lane Becker, the Wikimedia Foundation's elder manager of earned revenue, tells The Verge that the programme offers a mentation of Wikipedia "tuned" for commercialized usage and AI companies. "We instrumentality diagnostic …

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