The Washington Post has announced a landmark partnership with OpenAI, making its high-quality journalism directly accessible to the hundreds of millions of users engaging with ChatGPT each week. This strategic alliance allows ChatGPT to display summaries, quotes, and direct links to original reporting from The Post in response to user questions, ensuring that timely, well-sourced information is available at users’ fingertips.

Enhancing Discoverability and Trust in the AI Era

The collaboration is rooted in a shared commitment to making reliable, factual information easier to find and engage with, particularly on complex or rapidly evolving topics where trusted reporting is crucial. ChatGPT will now highlight The Post’s coverage across politics, global affairs, business, technology, and more, always with clear attribution and direct access to full articles for users who wish to explore topics in greater depth.

We’re all in on meeting our audiences where they are. Ensuring ChatGPT users have our impactful reporting at their fingertips builds on our commitment to provide access where, how and when our audiences want it.

Peter Elkins-Williams, Head of Global Partnerships at The Washington Post

More than 500 million people use ChatGPT each week to get answers to all kinds of questions. By investing in high-quality journalism by partners like The Washington Post, we’re helping ensure our users get timely, trustworthy information when they need it.

Varun Shetty, Head of Media Partnerships at OpenAI.

Context: A Growing Network of Media Partnerships

This agreement is the latest in a series of media collaborations OpenAI has formed with more than 20 news publishers, now spanning over 160 outlets and hundreds of content brands in more than 20 languages. Other recent OpenAI partnerships include major names in global media such as News Corp, The Associated Press, Axel Springer, and Vox Media.

The Post’s Broader AI Initiatives

The partnership also reflects The Washington Post’s broader strategy to expand the reach and discoverability of its journalism through AI-powered tools. Over the past year, The Post has introduced generative AI experiments like Ask The Post AI and Climate Answers, as well as newsroom tools such as Haystacker, while also making its content more accessible through AI-generated summaries and audio.