Deal explainer
Stack Overflow's OverflowAPI deal with OpenAI
Quick answer
In May 2024, Stack Overflow and OpenAI announced a partnership giving OpenAI access to Stack Overflow's OverflowAPI content to improve ChatGPT's performance on coding questions, with attribution back to the Stack Overflow community. Stack Overflow, in turn, uses OpenAI models in its own OverflowAI product.
What was reported#
- Announced May 6, 2024, the partnership gives OpenAI access to Stack Overflow's OverflowAPI dataset.
- OpenAI will surface validated technical knowledge from Stack Overflow directly in ChatGPT with attribution to the community.
- TechCrunch described the deal as 'a remarkable reversal' since Stack Overflow had initially banned ChatGPT-generated answers on its platform.
- The first set of resulting product features was expected to go live by the end of June 2024, per TechCrunch.
- Stack Overflow's public dataset spans more than 58 million questions and answers accumulated over 15 years, according to the companies' statements.
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Sources
Public sources, checked 2026-10-09. SourceX is not affiliated with the organizations named.
- OpenAI: API Partnership with Stack Overflow openai.com
- TechCrunch: Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models techcrunch.com
- Stack Overflow: Stack Overflow Data Licensing stackoverflow.co
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