According to the Securities Times app, the leader in generative AI field, OpenAI, has reached an important agreement with the global media-diversified giant, Hearst Communications Inc., to introduce the magazine and newspaper content of this news and commercial information publisher into their globally popular AI chatbot - ChatGPT. This agreement can be seen as an important addition to a series of cooperation agreements signed by this AI startup company with top global media companies.

By obtaining formally authorized content from top-tier media giants like Hearst, OpenAI's AI chatbot product after training optimization will be able to provide more high-quality content and make inferences using professionally curated copyrighted content. This not only greatly enhances the content output quality of ChatGPT but also makes its content more trustworthy, attracting more users worldwide to trust the generated information, thus achieving subscription revenue growth.

For a long time, OpenAI has faced copyright disputes from media such as The New York Times (e.g., The New York Times lawsuit). Therefore, through formal cooperation agreements with the media, OpenAI can better protect itself from similar legal disputes. This content licensing agreement shows that OpenAI is actively addressing copyright issues by obtaining content sources through legal means, undoubtedly removing significant barriers, reducing many potential risks in copyright use. Behind ChatGPT's unparalleled AI inference analysis system, as well as OpenAI's powerful AI large model training system, receive a strong boost of massive high-quality content.

As part of the agreement announced on Tuesday, Hearst will authorize content from its magazines Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and over 40 popular magazines for training and inference analysis in products under OpenAI. Hearst's content will appear in OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT, with proper attribution, to provide a function of 'transparency and easy access to original news and commercial information sources of Hearst,' as stated by both companies in the declaration.

Jeff Johnson, President of Hearst Newspapers, stated in a declaration: 'As the generative AI ecosystem becomes more mature, news created by professional journalists is the core source of information for all AI products, which is crucial.' 'This agreement allows the valuable and carefully planned content created by award-winning journalists of Hearst Newspapers to become an important part of OpenAI's flagship product, providing ChatGPT with results that are more timely, authoritative, and relevant to user inquiries.'

According to media compilations, OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has signed content licensing agreements with top global news publishers such as Condé Nast, the news corp established by Murdoch, and Time magazine, which are not only used to train their AI large models but also integrated into ChatGPT's AI inference analysis process to incorporate the most authoritative and latest news information from these media sources. As part of these important cooperation agreements, OpenAI also agreed to provide news summaries associated with collaborative news publishers to users, along with proper attribution.

In the eyes of some news industry analysts, OpenAI has demonstrated its ability to establish mutually beneficial relationships with traditional media by signing cooperation agreements with News Corp, Condé Nast, and other publishing companies. These media companies not only achieve new incremental revenue through the agreements, but can also promote subscription content related to news trends through AI platforms, while OpenAI can also enhance the content competitiveness of its generative AI products with the help of these authoritative content, achieving a win-win situation.

However, not all top news publishers choose to cooperate with OpenAI. It is reported that in December of last year, The New York Times sued the AI startup, accusing it of using its copyrighted articles without permission to build content output with AI technology. However, OpenAI disputed this statement, stating that The New York Times did not "tell the whole story." The copyright dispute between The New York Times and OpenAI is still ongoing, with no signs of the two sides resolving the significant differences regarding OpenAI's use of copyrighted content.

The valuation of the AI startup company OpenAI currently leads all startups worldwide. OpenAI announced earlier in October that the company had raised $6.6 billion in the latest funding, bringing its latest valuation to a staggering $157 billion. OpenAI stated in a blog that this new funding will enable the generative AI company to strengthen its leadership position in AI research, increase computing power, and "continue developing tools to help people solve complex problems."

According to sources cited by the media, Microsoft invested approximately $0.75 billion in this round of financing, further increasing its previous $13 billion investment, while NVIDIA invested about $0.1 billion. With the identity of a major shareholder of OpenAI, Microsoft has embedded OpenAI's proud GPT-4o AI large model into its flagship applications such as the Office series and Microsoft Azure cloud platform, becoming the absolute leader in AI applications worldwide, with performance and stock prices continuously growing since 2023, once sitting firmly on the throne of "world's highest market cap listed company".

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