# AI data licensing deals tracker

URL: https://sellmydatatoai.net/ai-data-deals


## Key takeaways

- We track 21 publicly reported AI data licensing deals from 2023 to 2026, each with a news or company source.
- 9 of the 21 deals have a reported value. The rest were announced without financial terms.
- The most active licensees are OpenAI (10 deals), Google (3 deals) and Meta (2 deals).
- Reported values are as published by the source and are not confirmed by the parties unless stated.

| Date | Data from | Paid by | Data | Reported value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10 | A shut-down crypto startup (founder Keelan Miskell) | Not named (sale brokered by SimpleClosure) | Codebase, with workspace data from Google, Notion, Figma and Slack pending | About $25,000 for the codebase, with about $15,000 likely for workspace data (reported) | [MIT Technology Review, October 2026](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models) |
| 2026-08 | Spirit Airlines (in bankruptcy) | Google | De-identified business data including corporate email, with booking, transaction, refund and inflight sales records excluded | $10 million winning auction bid (reported) | [The Next Web, October 2026](https://thenextweb.com/news/google-spirit-airlines-data-ombudsman-approval) |
| 2025-12 | CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, Le Monde Group, People Inc., The Daily Caller, The Washington Examiner and USA Today | Meta | Real-time news content for answers in the Meta AI assistant | Undisclosed | [TechCrunch, December 2025](https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/meta-signs-commercial-ai-data-agreements-with-publishers-to-offer-real-time-news-on-meta-ai) |
| 2025-11 | People Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith) | Microsoft | Publisher content through Microsoft's pay-per-use publisher content marketplace, with Copilot as first buyer | Undisclosed | [TechCrunch, November 2025](https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/people-inc-forges-ai-licensing-deal-with-microsoft-as-google-traffic-drops/) |
| 2025-05 | The New York Times | Amazon | Editorial content including The Athletic and NYT Cooking, for AI model training and summaries in Alexa | $20 million to $25 million a year (reported by The Wall Street Journal) | [Engadget, citing The Wall Street Journal, July 2025](https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-new-york-times-and-amazons-ai-licensing-deal-is-reportedly-worth-up-to-25-million-per-year-135523853/) |
| 2025-02 | Guardian Media Group | OpenAI | Guardian reporting and archive journalism shown in ChatGPT as attributed summaries and extracts | Undisclosed | [Press Gazette, February 2025](https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/guardian-openai/) |
| 2025-01 | The Associated Press | Google | Real-time news feed for the Gemini app | Undisclosed | [Associated Press via PBS NewsHour, January 2025](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/google-signs-deal-with-ap-to-deliver-up-to-date-news-through-its-gemini-ai-chatbot) |
| 2024-11 | HarperCollins | Microsoft (reported by Bloomberg, not confirmed by HarperCollins) | Select nonfiction backlist titles for limited use in AI model training, three-year term, author opt-in | $5,000 per title, split equally between author and publisher (reported) | [Publishers Weekly, November 2024](https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20241125/96533-agents-authors-question-harpercollins-ai-deal.html) |
| 2024-11 | Dotdash Meredith | OpenAI | Content from brands including Food and Wine, InStyle, Better Homes and Gardens, Lifewire and Investopedia, for training and display in ChatGPT | At least $16 million a year (reported) | [Engadget, citing Adweek, November 2024](https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-will-pay-dotdash-meredith-at-least-16-million-per-year-to-license-its-content-191756662.html) |
| 2024-10 | Reuters | Meta | Reuters news content for answers in the Meta AI chatbot | Undisclosed | [SiliconANGLE, citing Axios, October 2024](https://siliconangle.com/2024/10/25/meta-inks-multiyear-ai-content-licensing-deal-reuters/) |
| 2024-08 | Condé Nast | OpenAI | Content from Vogue, The New Yorker, Bon Appétit, Vanity Fair and Wired for display in ChatGPT and SearchGPT | Undisclosed | [Axios, August 2024](https://www.axios.com/2024/08/20/openai-conde-nast-deal-chatgpt-search) |
| 2024-08 | Wiley | Undisclosed technology companies | Authors' content for training large language models | $44 million expected from AI rights deals (reported) | [The Bookseller, August 2024](https://thebookseller.com/news/wiley-set-to-earn-44m-from-ai-rights-deals-confirms-no-opt-out-for-authors) |
| 2024-05 | News Corp | OpenAI | Current and archived content from The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, The Sun and other News Corp titles, for display in ChatGPT and model training | About $250 million over five years in cash and credits (reported by The Wall Street Journal) | [Engadget, citing The Wall Street Journal, May 2024](https://www.engadget.com/openai-will-reportedly-pay-250-million-to-put-news-corps-journalism-in-chatgpt-214615249.html?src=rss) |
| 2024-05 | Reddit | OpenAI | Access to Reddit's data API for real-time, structured content | Undisclosed | [Associated Press via News4JAX, May 2024](https://www.news4jax.com/business/2024/05/17/openai-reddit-teaming-in-deal-that-will-bring-reddits-content-to-chatgpt/) |
| 2024-05 | Informa (Taylor and Francis) | Microsoft | Advanced learning content and data | Initial data access fee of about $10 million, plus recurring payments over three years (reported) | [interactive investor, May 2024](https://www.ii.co.uk/analysis-commentary/ii-view-confident-informa-does-ai-data-deal-microsoft-ii531624) |
| 2024-05 | Stack Overflow | OpenAI | OverflowAPI access to Stack Overflow community content, with attribution | Undisclosed | [IT Brief UK, May 2024](https://itbrief.co.uk/story/stack-overflow-openai-unite-to-accelerate-ai-development) |
| 2024-04 | Financial Times | OpenAI | FT journalism for ChatGPT answers, plus the FT archive for model training | Undisclosed | [Nieman Lab, April 2024](https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/04/the-financial-times-inks-new-licensing-deal/) |
| 2024-02 | Reddit | Google | Reddit content for training AI models | About $60 million a year (reported by Reuters, citing one source) | [Reuters via Nieman Lab, February 2024](https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/reddit-in-ai-content-licensing-deal-with-google-sources-say/) |
| 2023-12 | Axel Springer | OpenAI | Articles from Politico, Business Insider, Bild and Die Welt for ChatGPT answers and building OpenAI's AI systems | Tens of millions of euros (reported by Bloomberg) | [Bloomberg Law, December 2023](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/openai-to-pay-axel-springer-tens-of-millions-to-use-news-content) |
| 2023-07 | The Associated Press | OpenAI | Part of AP's text archive of news stories | Undisclosed | [Fortune, July 2023](https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/openai-associated-press-licensing-archive-news-stories-chatgpt) |
| 2023-07 | Shutterstock | OpenAI | Images, videos, music and associated metadata | Undisclosed | [TechCrunch, July 2023](https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/shutterstock-expands-deal-with-openai-to-build-generative-ai-tools) |