Getty Images surges following OpenAI partnership

Getty Images shares surged 124% after announcing a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to license its image library for AI training and integrate OpenAI's generative AI tools into its products. The deal follows Getty's earlier lawsuit against Stability AI and a licensing agreement with Perplexity, as the company seeks to monetize its content amid threats from generative AI.

Getty Images surges following OpenAI partnership Getty Images https://robinhood.com/us/en/stocks/GETY/?source=sherwood is surging in early trading after the company announced a multi-year licensing and product partnership https://newsroom.gettyimages.com/en/getty-images/getty-images-announces-display-partnership-with-openai with OpenAI. Under the agreement, OpenAI will license Getty’s library of images, videos, and metadata for use in training and improving its AI models, while Getty will integrate OpenAI’s generative AI tools into its own products and services. The deal comes as Getty faces growing pressure from generative AI tools that can create stock image-like images in seconds, threatening parts of its traditional licensing business. Getty posted revenue of $226.6 million in Q1, down 2.5% year over year on a currency-neutral basis. Getty was one of the earliest major content companies to challenge AI firms in court, suing Stability AI https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Getty-Images-v-Stability-AI.pdf in 2023 for allegedly scraping millions of copyrighted images without permission to train image-generation models. The OpenAI deal follows Getty’s 2025 licensing agreement https://investors.gettyimages.com/news-releases/news-release-details/getty-images-and-perplexity-strike-multi-year-image-partnership with Perplexity, which gave the AI search company access to Getty’s library and required image credits with links to original sources. Before the announcement, Getty shares had been trading below $1 for months. The stock surged by 124% in early trading, erasing its year-to-date losses as investors are waiting to see if Getty can turn its licensed content library into a more valuable AI asset.