ChatGPT Will Soon Surface News from Brazil’s Biggest Publishers

OpenAI has tapped Brazil’s massive news market as it officially announced a new partnership earlier this week with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL. This will allow OpenAI to bring journalism from Folha de S.Paulo and UOL directly into ChatGPT responses. Not to mention, OpenAI’s move comes at a time when it is aggressively making ChatGPT look more like a real-time information platform instead of just a chatbot.

ChatGPT will now surface Brazilian news content directly

Under the partnership, ChatGPT users globally will start seeing summaries, reporting, and attributed content pulled from both Brazilian publishers. OpenAI says the integration focuses heavily on attribution, transparency, and direct links back to original articles.

This also marks OpenAI’s very first official media partnership in Brazil. The country has reportedly become one of ChatGPT’s largest global markets already, with more than 50 million monthly active users and around 140 million messages exchanged every single day.

Over the past year, OpenAI has quietly signed similar partnerships with publishers across the United States, UK, France, and Germany as the company tries to strengthen trust around AI-generated answers.

The bigger goal seems pretty obvious at this point: OpenAI wants ChatGPT pulling from licensed journalism instead of scraping content, for which it has been sued in the past.

Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL will also receive access to tools like ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and OpenAI APIs to experiment with AI-powered newsroom workflows, products, and internal operations.