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Financial Times and OpenAI content partnership
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The Financial Times announced a strategic partnership and licensing agreement with OpenAI in April 2024, allowing ChatGPT to surface attributed FT summaries and quotes while OpenAI uses FT journalism to help train its models. The Guardian reported the FT would receive an undisclosed payment, and The Verge later cited reports valuing such FT-style deals in the single-digit millions.
What was reported#
- Announced April 29, 2024, the agreement lets ChatGPT show attributed summaries, quotes and links to FT journalism.
- The FT became a customer of ChatGPT Enterprise earlier in 2024 as part of the broader relationship.
- FT Group CEO John Ridding said the deal 'recognises the value of our award-winning journalism.'
- The Guardian reported the FT would receive an undisclosed payment under the deal.
- Reuters noted the deal followed similar OpenAI agreements with Axel Springer, Le Monde and Prisa Media.
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Sources
Public sources, checked 2026-10-09. SourceX is not affiliated with the organizations named.
- Financial Times: FT announces strategic partnership with OpenAI aboutus.ft.com
- Reuters: OpenAI to use FT content for training AI models in latest media tie-up reuters.com
- The Guardian: OpenAI to use FT journalism to train artificial intelligence systems theguardian.com
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