According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is in talks with multiple publishers for long-term content licensing agreements, aiming to use up-to-date news and information from authoritative media to provide real-time information support for its upcoming Siri AI, which will be launched later this year. This move marks Apple's effort to accelerate the enhancement of its voice assistant AI's intelligence while trying to establish a new AI content ecosystem and business cooperation system.

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Unlike the industry's common "fixed licensing fee" buyout model, Apple has proposed a dynamic compensation plan based on the actual usage of the content. According to reports, Apple has planned a dedicated budget of hundreds of millions of dollars for this. This on-demand payment mechanism aligns closely with the commercial revenue-sharing logic of the Apple News+ platform, significantly reducing the "hallucination" risk caused by large models directly generating or summarizing content, while ensuring users receive accurate and authentic real-time information.

In recent years, the relationship between tech giants and copyright holders has been reshaped, and AI companies have generally faced copyright lawsuits and data compliance challenges. Apple's initiative to introduce compliant data through a variable compensation model not only reflects its strategic intent to rapidly address its shortcomings in the generative AI competition, but also explores a sustainable and compliant model for content copyright distribution in the era of large models.