OpenAI Strikes Content Licensing Deal With Condé Nast for SearchGPT
OpenAI partners with Condé Nast to feature content from major publications like The New Yorker and Wired in its SearchGPT prototype and ChatGPT. The agreement represents the latest move by AI companies to secure legal access to publisher content amid ongoing copyright scrutiny.
OpenAI announces a new content licensing agreement with Condé Nast, allowing its AI tools like ChatGPT and the SearchGPT prototype to access and display material from prominent publications. This deal covers well-known brands such as The New Yorker, Vogue, Wired, GQ, and Vanity Fair, bringing high-quality journalism directly into OpenAI's generative AI responses.
The partnership focuses on enhancing SearchGPT, a prototype that answers user questions directly with summarized text and clear citations rather than just providing a list of traditional links. OpenAI states that it combines its conversational models with real-time web information to deliver fast, intuitive answers, and plans to integrate the best features of SearchGPT directly into ChatGPT in the future.
This agreement is part of a growing trend of AI companies securing formal media partnerships to avoid copyright infringement disputes over web scraping. OpenAI previously strikes similar deals with the Financial Times and News Corp., while competitors like Perplexity AI launch their own revenue-sharing publisher programs to ensure legal and ethical access to news content.