AI search startup Perplexity has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images, which gives it permission to display images from Getty across its AI-powered search and discovery tools. The deal marks a notable shift for the company, which has been hit by allegations of content scraping and plagiarism, and signals an effort to establish more formal content partnerships.

Perplexity and Getty have been working together for more than a year, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Though it was never announced, Getty was part of Perplexity’s Publishers’ Program , a plan to share ad revenue with publishers when their content surfaced in a search query, the source said.

Today’s agreement is a new deal. A source told TechCrunch it’s not a traditional lump sum licensing deal, s

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