Wikipedia parent partners with Amazon, Meta, Perplexity on AI access

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Source: CNBC

Published Thu, Jan 15 2026 4:57 PM EST | Updated Thu, Jan 15 2026 5:36 PM EST


Wikimedia announced new deals with several artificial intelligence companies in a blog post on Thursday, including Amazon, Meta and Perplexity, as part of the company’s 25th anniversary.

Through the new partnerships under Wikimedia Enterprise, companies will pay Wikipedia to use its data to help develop and train AI models, instead of web scraping. The partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and Perplexity were formalized over the last year but have not been publicly shared, Wikimedia said.

“All these organizations utilize Wikimedia Enterprise to integrate human-governed knowledge into their platforms at scale,” Wikimedia said in the release.

The tech companies joined existing partners Ecosia, Pleias, ProRata and Google, which was one of Wikimedia Enterprise’s first partners in 2022.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/wikipedia-amazon-meta-perplexity-ai.html

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2. Damn nt

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3. Well, there goes the last

reasonably objective source of information. The money they get looks like a great deal for Wikipedia, but eventually the big media companies will start calling the shots.

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4. follow the $$$$. Wikipedia has been beging viewers for cash while lining up corporate income?

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5. No more donations from me

I've donated sev times. No more. Anything to with Amazon/Bezos doesn't get 1 cent from me. Cancelled Wapo and when I saw Jeff at pustule's inauguration, cancelled Prime. Not 1 penny.