Meta Platforms to use Reuters news content in AI chatbot

2024-10-28


Meta Platforms its AI chatbot will use Reuters content to answer users' questions about news and current events in real time, in the latest AI partnership between a major technology company and a news publisher.


Neither Meta nor Thomson Reuters, Reuters' parent company, disclosed financial details of the partnership. It would be the company's first news deal in years. The Facebook parent has been reducing news content on its service following criticism from regulators and publishers over misinformation and disagreements over revenue sharing.

Meta AI is the company's chatbot that can be used across all its services including Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram. The social media giant did not disclose whether it plans to use Reuters content to train its big language model.

Through its partnership with Reuters, Meta AI can answer news-related questions using summaries and links to Reuters content.



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