Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images / Futurism Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. The companies include Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, and France’s Mistral AI. As part of the series of deals, revealed Thursday by Wikipedia’s operator the Wikimedia Foundation, the AI developers are joining Wikimedia’s E