At Bloomberg’s Tech conference on Thursday, Reid Hoffman said regulators are “asking questions just to kind of understand” the deal that let Microsoft acqui-hire Mustafa Suleyman and much of his team from Inflection AI.
“It was a 100 percent legal deal,” Hoffman said, who is on the board of both companies.
According to Adweek, OpenAI’s incentives for publishers include financial compensation as well as:
...priority placement and “richer brand expression” in chat conversations, and their content benefits from more prominent link treatments.
In exchange, OpenAI gets training data and a license to display info with attribution and links. OpenAI has struck deals with publishers like Axel Springer, The Financial Times, and most recently, People magazine publisher Dotdash Meredith. A comment from OpenAI said Adweek’s report “contains a number of mischaracterizations and outdated information.”
OpenAI is developing a search engine for ChatGPT, giving users the ability to crawl the web for answers to their questions, Bloomberg reports. Sources also tell The Verge that OpenAI has been aggressively trying to poach Google employees for a team that is working hard to ship the product soon.