Meta Inks $150M+ Deal With News Corp for AI Training Data
Meta will pay News Corp at least $50M annually to license content for AI training and retrieval.
Meta just locked down a massive content pipeline for its AI ambitions. The company has signed a multiyear licensing deal with News Corp worth $50 million per year, running at least three years. That's a minimum $150 million commitment.
The agreement gives Meta access to News Corp's content library for two key purposes: training its AI models and retrieving information to serve users of its AI tools. Think better answers, grounded in real journalism.
It's one of the biggest media-AI licensing deals to date. News Corp — which owns The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and a sprawling global media empire — has been aggressive about monetizing its content in the AI era rather than letting it get scraped for free.
For Meta, it's the cost of doing business in a world where AI needs quality data and publishers are done giving it away.