American social platform and discussion aggregator organized into topic-based communities (subreddits); a significant supplier of training data for AI models.
Reddit is an American social platform and discussion aggregator founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. The service is organized around topic-based communities called subreddits, where users post content, comment and vote (up/down). Reddit is a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RDDT (debut in March 2024), and its largest shareholder is Advance Publications. In the context of artificial intelligence, Reddit plays a significant role as a data source: the company has signed licensing deals making its content available for training AI models (including with Google and OpenAI) and launched the Reddit Answers feature powered by large language models. Its main revenue streams are advertising, data licensing and the Reddit Premium subscription.
Founders
Co-founder of Reddit and its chief executive; returned as CEO in 2015.
Co-founder of Reddit and venture investor (Seven Seven Six).
Programmer and activist who joined Reddit early after the Infogami merger.
Domain of activity
2 areas · 2 technologies · 2 industries- Data analytics
- Content generation
- LLM
- Generative AI
- Software & Technology
- Media & entertainment
Global presence
HQ San Francisco · 2 regionsScale & funding
founded 2005Profile & metadata
4 classification · 5 external linksClassification
- Statusactive
- Development stagemature
- Listed onYes
- Organization typePlatform company
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