OpenAI is funding 13 Axios local newsletters in a three-year deal
OpenAI is paying the startup costs of 13 new Axios Local newsletters, covering both staff and technology. Axios employees also get free credits for OpenAI’s enterprise tools. In return, Axios lets OpenAI train its models on its free published coverage. The term is three years.
Issie Lapowsky set the arrangement out for the Columbia Journalism Review last week. It is the fullest account of the partnership so far, and it is the source for most of what follows.
What Axios is testing is whether a local newsroom can survive when everything except the reporting is automated. Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, put it to Lapowsky as a question.
“Could we use AI to basically automate everything you need in a local market other than the journalist and the journalism itself?” VandeHei said.
Three years, six weeks
On 9 August, VandeHei published a column in his own outlet about what he...
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