Microsoft and OpenAI are giving news outlets $10 million to use AI tools

Microsoft and OpenAI announced they’re offering a prime radical of media outlets up to $10 cardinal ($2.5 cardinal successful currency positive $2.5 cardinal worthy of “software and endeavor credits” from each) to effort retired AI tools successful the newsroom.

The archetypal circular of backing volition spell to Newsday, The Minnesota Star Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Public Media, and The Seattle Times.

These outlets volition person a assistance to prosecute a two-year chap who volition enactment to make and instrumentality AI tools utilizing Microsoft Azure and OpenAI credits. The programme is portion of a collaboration betwixt Microsoft, OpenAI, and the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, which aims to beforehand section media.

“While thing volition regenerate the cardinal relation of reporters, we judge that AI exertion tin assistance successful the research, investigation, distribution, and monetization of important journalism,” Tom Rubin, the main of intelligence spot and contented astatine OpenAI, said successful the property release.

Microsoft and OpenAI volition supply grants to 3 much media organizations astatine a aboriginal date. Some AI applications that the outlets volition research see leveraging the exertion for, transcription, contented summaries, and creating a “conversational” hunt instrumentality for archives.