Google strikes a deal with Reddit, reportedly for $60M/year, gaining Reddit Data API access to surface more Reddit content in Search and to train its AI models
what you need to know Eileen AJ Connelly / The Wrap : Reddit Inks $60 Million-a-Year Deal To Train Google AI Ahead of Expected IPO | Report Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : No Joke: Google Is Paying Reddit For More Content, More Often Imad Khan / CNET : Reddit's $60 Million Deal With Google Will Feed Generative AI Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Reddit Secures a $60 Million AI Training Content Deal with Google Jonathan Wong / Business Times : Reddit Agrees to $60M Deal with Google for AI Model Training, Announces IPO Plans Roger Cheng / Cord Cutters News : Google is Cozying Up to Reddit on AI and Content Partnership Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo : Google Will Scrape Reddit Communities For AI Parts in $60 Million Deal: Report Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Reddit Partners With Google on New Data Sharing Deal Britney Nguyen / Quartz : Google's next AI is about to get trained by millions of Reddit posts Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog : Reddit gets paid for AI training Karandeep Oberoi / MobileSyrup : Google will pay $60 million a year to use Reddit's data to train AI models Nickie Louise / TechStartups : Reddit strikes a $60 million AI content licensing deal with Google Danny Goodwin / Search Engine Land : Report: Reddit signs AI content licensing deal with Google Shannon Thaler / New York Post : Reddit reportedly strikes $60M-a-year AI content-licensing deal with Google Rafly Gilang / MSPoweruser : Google will soon use Reddit posts to train its AI models, new yearly $60 million deal reveals Richard Goodwin / KnowYourMobile : Reddit Just Sold Its Soul To Google's AI Dream Benzinga : Reddit And Google Team Up In $60 Million Deal To Train Search Giant's AI Models: Report Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Reddit reportedly signs $60 million annual training data deal with Google Victor Oluoma / CoinXposure : Reddit AI Venture: $60 Million Deal with Google Ahead of IPO Richard Lawler / The Verge : Google is reportedly Reddit's $60 million per year AI content licensing customer. Threads: Anuj Ahooja / @quillmatiq : Interesting to me that companies building LLMs are willing to pay a company that stores and locks down content generated by unpaid and often non-expert users for training data, but will not give money to newsrooms that store content generated by paid and trustworthy writers. … Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : Google confirms expanded $60m a year partnership with Reddit The new partnership will include: - A new Cloud partnership that enables Reddit to integrate new AI-powered capabilities using Vertex AI. - Reddit intends to use Vertex AI to enhance search and other capabilities on the Reddit platform. … Casey Newton / @crumbler : Here's Reddit confirming its (reportedly $60M) deal with Google while going out of its way to avoid mentioning the fact that it's selling all of your posts to train Google's LLMs https://www.redditinc.com/... Mastodon: Brian Dear / @brianstorms@mastodon.social : @Techmeme — It's time to start filling Reddit with illogic, misinformation, ridiculous takes, and general noise, to fill up the tech titan AIs with nonsense. — Oh, wait... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : Reddit will let 75,000 of its most prolific users buy shares pre-IPO as a perk. — I was initially impressed because I thought they were gifting them shares. However an opportunity to buy Reddit shares at a $5B valuation hoping that it goes higher is more of a gamble than a perk. — https://www.wsj.com/... X: Mark Hachman / @markhachman : Knowing what I know about Reddit lore, some of the responses Bard is going to return for otherwise innocuous queries are going to be horrific Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : With the new Reddit / Google news and the data - SEOs can't be happy with this. Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : 22M to 41.1M urls -> OK, so Google has a deal with Reddit to train its AI on Reddit content. We also know that the “hidden gems” piece rolled out in the fall of 2023 and Reddit (and other forums) surged. But with the deal, does Google have a firehose from Reddit? i.e. Is Reddit... [image] Cher Scarlett / @cherthedev : This is concerning, opting out requires knowledge and access to an account. Reddit does not offer account recovery if you've lost access to an account. This should be opt-in. @mmitchell_ai : W/ the new Reddit data licensing deal, some important questions remain: -How will they treat content that infringes the copyright of others? -Is user consent accounted for? -Do users have a way to opt out? -Is all user content since 2005 included? https://www.theverge.com/... @reuters : Last year, Reddit said it would charge companies for access to its application programming interface - the means by which it distributes its content. The agreement with Google is its first reported deal with a big AI company 4/8 [image] @mrjnowlin : Peanuts. Course I don't think I actually want Google training on most of that data...... Todd / @toddlombardo : @mediagazer And Reddit the company creates 0% of the content. Users do it for free Andrew Torba / @basedtorba : Google's AI is about to get A LOT worse lol Anna Tong / @annatonger : Reddit's first AI content training deal is with Google. At $60 million a year, deals like this could be a very lucrative income stream for the social media company. Reddit's S1 could go public as early as tmrw (2/22) https://www.reuters.com/... @reuters : The deal underscores how Reddit, which is preparing for a high-profile stock market launch, is seeking to generate new revenue amid fierce competition for advertising dollars from the likes of TikTok and Facebook 3/8 [image] Chirag Mehta / @chirag_mehta : We are primarily going to see two races: 1) Better, faster, cheaper models 2) Models trained on a broad range of content domains @brij : r/mildlyinfuriating for LLM startups LinkedIn: Mark Kirstein : Reddit's $60M sale of AI access to the platform data. — This (among many other reasons) is why privacy and AI governance are locked at the hip. … Kyle Enfield : Google announced today an expanded partnership with Reddit, which doesn't really come as a huge surprise given Reddit's significant growth in search results, across several major industries. … Emil Protalinski : We finally know who bought access to Reddit's content for AI training: Google. 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