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This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, January 15th, 2020.

We tell you what you need to know.

We give you context.

We do our darndest to help you

understand. Today, Andy Beach tells us why Microsoft is spending so much money on Anthropic and

Wikipedia gets paid by the big LLM companies. Is Microsoft trying to win Anthropics heart? Is that

why? It's like a Valentine's thing. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm going to'm wind wet now let's start with what you need to know with the big story

Wikipedia launched on January 15th 2001 that was 25 years ago today and now has more

than 65 million pages receives billions of views per month.

The site has put up a celebratory mini site at WikimediaFoundation.org slash Wikipedia 25.

There's like interviews with people who've been editors for years, lots of cool,

like diving into the archives, telling the story of Wikipedia.

Definitely something worth celebrating, in my opinion.

The Wikimedia Foundation also celebrated the day with an undoubted bargain.

That's a quote from Christmas Carol, if anybody doesn't get it.

Amazon, Meta, Microsoft Mistral, and Perplexity have all signed on to the Wikimedia Enterprise

program, which licenses Wikipedia's data for training their models. They are not the first

to do this, but that's a lot of big names all at once. Previously, Google, Ecosia, Nomic,

playas, pro rata, and reef Media were already part of the program. The program

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