Le Monde Reports New Revenue From AI Licensing
Le Monde CEO Louis Dreyfus reports significant new revenue from AI licensing deals with OpenAI (signed March 2024), Perplexity (May 2025), and Meta (December 2025). Le Monde was the first French media organization to sign an AI partnership, and the company now gives 25% of all AI licensing revenue directly to staff journalists as a yearly bonus under a deal agreed with unions in June 2024. Dreyfus is urging other publishers to follow suit, warning that competitive imbalance will harm the industry if only a few outlets can afford to hire journalists with AI-supplemented revenue. Le Monde generated 72 million euros in digital subscriptions alone in 2025.
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