Amazon, Meta, Microsoft Join Wikimedia’s Platform for AI Training
Amazon, Meta, Microsoft Join Wikimedia’s Platform for AI Training
Publish Date: 2026-01-15 16:56:00
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- Five additional companies, including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity, have formally established relationships with Wikipedia through Wikimedia Enterprise, a commercial product for distributing and reusing Wikipedia’s content on a large scale.
- Wikimedia Enterprise offers tech companies various API access methods for Wikipedia content: On-demand, Snapshot, and Realtime APIs.
- Wikipedia, celebrating its 25th anniversary, continues to be seen as a valuable dataset for training large language models due to its extensive and varied article base in multiple languages.
- To celebrate the anniversary and emphasize its support, Perplexity donated 2,500 Perplexity Enterprise seats to Wikipedia editors and highlights its commitment to the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission of free knowledge access.
- The Wikimedia Foundation encourages AI companies to use Wikimedia Enterprise for content access to support sustainable practices, acknowledging the platform’s role in maintaining Wikipedia’s global volunteer editor network and nonprofit funding.
