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Linkup connects LLMs with premium content sources (legally)
If you’ve used ChatGPT Search or Perplexity you know that being able to search the web and get citations inline greatly improves these AI chatbots.
That’s why French startup Linkup is building an API that lets developers access web content from premium, trusted sources and hand the results to a large language model (LLM) to enrich its answers. There are also now high-profile legal cases in the frame, such as the ongoing lawsuit between OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and the New York Times — so the situation around web scraping could change in the near future. Hence why OpenAI has signed multi-year content licensing deals with major publishers such as AP, Axel Springer, Condé Nast, El País, the Financial Times, Le Monde, and others.
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