AI Training Data Licensing Deals

Method and definitions

Company announcements, filings and annual reports, and reporting by major outlets, each linked; live roles from the labs' and vendors' public job boards. The live figures are computed every day from this site's own data, the same way for every reader; every sourced row links the publication it is taken from, with the figure as that publication states it. Each figure states its sample beneath it.

Deal

A licence, partnership or sale of content or data to an AI company for training, display or both, as announced or reported.

Licensor total

What a data owner reports earning from AI licensing across all buyers, from its filings; it overlaps the deals and is never added to them.

Stated or reported

Stated: the parties or a filing. Reported: press from unnamed sources.

What this data cannot tell you

• Each report sets its sourced records beside a live figure computed from this site's own data every day; the sourced records are added as they are published and reviewed.
• Compiled from public sources: an event that was never announced or reported is missing, and private companies' figures are what they or the press stated, not audited.
• Most deals never disclose terms; the priced ones lean towards large, newsworthy deals.

How the job feeds are read and roles are classified: site methodology. How fresh, complete and consistent the data is, checked every day: data quality and coverage.

Editions

The live report is the dataset as last reviewed, beside figures recomputed every day from this site's own data; new events are added as they are published. Each complete month is also published as an edition, frozen two days after the month ends, so a figure you cite from an edition never moves.

• Live dataSources as last reviewed, live figures daily

Cite and reuse

Free to quote, chart and republish under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page. Live figures change daily: cite a monthly edition for numbers that will read the same later, or keep the access date.

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  author = {{AITraining.jobs}},
  title = {AI Training Data Licensing Deals (live data, 11 Jul 2023 to 11 Oct 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.aitraining.team/research/ai-training-data-licensing-deals}},
  note = {Accessed 18 Oct 2026},
}

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