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Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now
Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.
TL;DR
- Curiosity Stream, founded in 2015, has turned its first net income in fiscal Q1 2025.
- The company is generating significant revenue by licensing its content to AI companies for large language model training.
- Curiosity Stream expects AI licensing revenue to surpass subscription revenue by 2027.
- The service has licensed 300,000 hours of its own content and 1.7 million hours of third-party content for AI purposes.
- The strategy of licensing IP to AI companies could be a crucial new revenue stream for struggling streaming services.
- The long-term viability and legal implications of AI content licensing are still uncertain.