Available reporting shows that by the end of 2024—and even as of late 2025—The New York Times has not launched a public, NYT‑branded AI assistant or LLM where only authenticated NYT subscribers can query NYT information and receive NYT‑powered answers. Coverage instead describes internal newsroom AI tools and policies. In February 2025, the Times rolled out Echo, an in‑house AI summarization tool, and approved staff use of external LLM services (OpenAI’s API, Google Vertex, etc.), but Echo is explicitly an internal tool for summarizing Times articles and briefings, not a subscriber‑facing AI product. (theverge.com) The Times’ first major generative‑AI content licensing partnership is a multi‑year deal announced in May 2025 with Amazon, allowing Amazon to use Times, Athletic, and NYT Cooking content in Alexa and other Amazon AI products and to train Amazon’s models. Those uses surface as summaries and excerpts within Amazon consumer experiences and are described as a way to reach broader audiences, not as an NYT‑run, subscriber‑only AI interface. (cnbc.com) In 2023–24, the Times’ posture toward major LLM providers was primarily adversarial—suing OpenAI and Microsoft and sending a cease‑and‑desist to Perplexity over unlicensed use of its content—rather than partnering with them on the kind of gated NYT chatbot the prediction envisioned. (news.cgtn.com) While the Times has experimented with AI‑generated audio narrations and articulated internal generative‑AI principles, these are feature enhancements and staff tools, not a 2024 launch of a subscriber‑authenticated NYT AI model or a subscriber‑only integration with a major LLM. (axios.com) Because neither branch of the prediction (a public NYT‑run model nor a subscriber‑gated integration with a major LLM) materialized within the roughly 2024 timeframe—or even by late 2025—the prediction is best judged as wrong.