Google is partnering with the Associated Press to feed real-time information from the news outlet into its Gemini app, the search giant. announced Wednesday. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The deal builds on Google's existing partnership with the Associated Press to provide real-time information for its search engine. “This will be especially useful for users (of the Gemini app) who are looking for relevant information,” Google says of the deal.
“AP and Google’s long relationship is based on working together to provide timely and accurate news and information to a global audience,” said Christine Heitmann, Associated Press senior vice president and chief revenue officer. “We are pleased that Google recognizes the value of AP journalism, as well as our commitment to unbiased reporting, in the development of its generative AI products.”
The Associated Press joins a long list of news publishers that have partnered with Google or OpenAI to provide them with data to train consumer-facing models and features in exchange for money and other rewards. A little earlier today Axios announced a three-year deal with OpenAI that will see the artificial intelligence startup fund four new local newsrooms. Last year OpenAI became a partner People publisher Dotdash Meredith, a deal that later turned out to be worth at least $16 million per year.