The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed that it has signed up AI companies including Amazon, Meta Platforms, Perplexity, Microsoft and France's Mistral AI. The new deals will help one of the world's most popular websites monetize heavy traffic from AI companies. The Wikimedia Foundation last year urged AI developers to pay for access through its enterprise platform and said human traffic had fallen 8%. “They're not donating in order to subsidize these huge AI companies,” Wales said. “You can imagine a world where you can ask the Wikipedia search box a question and it will quote to you from Wikipedia," he said.