The New York Times is allowing Amazon.com to use its editorial content for artificial intelligence products such as Alexa, marking the publisher’s first licensing deal tied to generative AI.

The multi-year agreement lets Amazon use news articles from The Times and content from NYT Cooking and sports website The Athletic, the publisher said on Thursday, without disclosing the financial terms of the deal.

“This will include real-time display of summaries and short excerpts of Times content within Amazon products and services, such as Alexa, and training Amazon’s proprietary foundation models,” NYT said.

The deal comes as AI companies strive to overcome difficulties in improving their large-language models after exhausting all the easily accessible data in the world. Many, including ChatGP

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