Oct 25 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms ( META ) said on Friday its

artificial intelligence chatbot will use Reuters content to

answer user questions in real time about news and current

events, the latest AI tie-up between a big technology company

and a news publisher.

Neither Meta nor Reuters-parent Thomson Reuters ( TRI )

disclosed the financial details of the partnership. The

arrangement would be its first news deal in years. It comes at a

time when the Facebook parent has been reducing news content on

its services after criticism from regulators and publishers over

misinformation and disagreement about revenue-sharing.

Meta AI, the company's chatbot, is available across its

services including Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram. The social

media giant did not disclose whether it plans to use Reuters

content to train its large-language model.

"We can confirm that Reuters has partnered with tech

providers to license our trusted, fact-based news content to

power their AI platforms. The terms of these deals remain

confidential," a spokesperson for Reuters, said in a statement.

Reuters will be compensated for access to its journalism

under a multi-year deal, according to a report on Friday from

Axios, which first published the news.

Through its partnership with Reuters, "Meta AI can respond

to news-related questions with summaries and links to Reuters

content," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement sent by email.

Other companies including ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Jeff

Bezos-backed startup Perplexity have struck similar AI

partnerships with news organizations.

Reuters already has a fact-checking partnership with Meta,

which began in 2020.