2026-10-06——
Redpine announces licensing deals with six publishers for AI agent access to 20 million research papers
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Swedish start-up Redpine announced on 6 October 2026 that six scientific publishers, including Sage, BMJ Group and Wanfang Data, have joined its content partnerships, giving AI agents licensed access to more than 20 million peer-reviewed articles on a pay-per-use basis, with each publisher setting permitted uses and per-transaction pricing.
What happened
- Announced on 6 October 2026.
- Participating publishers: Sage, BMJ Group, Wanfang Data, IOP Publishing, IGI Global Scientific Publishing and RCNi (publishing arm of the Royal College of Nursing).
- The partnerships span more than 20 million peer-reviewed articles across hundreds of journals in medical and life sciences, and quantum and physical sciences.
- Redpine, founded in 2024, provides access through APIs and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), with retrieved passages carrying identifiers such as DOIs and page references.
- Each publisher sets permitted uses and per-transaction pricing; Redpine says it shares the majority of its revenue with publishing partners.
- Redpine Science is listed at $1 per 1,000 tokens with no upfront subscription; Sage's participation is described as a pilot spanning more than 400 medical and life sciences journals, including titles from Mary Ann Liebert.
- Anders Hammarbäck, co-founder and CEO of Redpine, called the pay-per-use model a 'game-changer for research teams'.
Sources
- timeshighereducation.com — primary
- pitchbook.com — party background
- unite.ai — party background
- en.wikipedia.org — party background
- open.endole.co.uk — party background
- en.wikipedia.org — party background
- zoominfo.com — party background
- en.wikipedia.org — party background
- iop.org — party background
Announced 2026-10-06