Announcement
Artprice by Artmarket.com, listed on Euronext Paris and described as the world leader in art‑market information, announced on 3 November 2026 the free worldwide release of the complete Spanish edition of the 1,800‑page raw typescript titled Diálogo entre un pensador y la IA (English: “Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI”). The download is available without any editorial intermediary at https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/es/ under a Creative Commons CC BY‑NC‑ND 4.0 licence.
Key Figures
The raw typescript has accumulated 32.4 million open‑access downloads as of 1 November 2026 across all platforms and PR Newswire syndications, reaching 123 countries and being distributed in 12 languages. The work was produced through 450 hours of uninterrupted oral dictation by Thierry Ehrmann, founder and CEO of Groupe Serveur and Artprice. Artprice’s proprietary databases cover over 930,000 artists and contain more than 145 million artwork images, forming the AI‑first foundation for the publication.
Strategic and Cultural Context
The Spanish edition is positioned as the third linguistic pillar of Artprice’s AI ecosystem, following French (the matrix language) and English (the global business lingua franca). The release highlights the demographic vitality of the Hispanic sphere, citing more than 10 million unique works, 1.5 million recorded authors (including over 400,000 active authors), 11 Nobel Prizes in Literature, 983,209 active titles in Spain, and approximately 200,000 new ISBNs published annually across Spain and Latin America. Spanish ranks second worldwide by native speakers, and the company frames the launch as a geopolitical move to serve the Global South and counter Anglo‑Saxon cultural dominance.
Technical Infrastructure
The manuscript was conceived within La Demeure du Chaos, a 9,000 m² contemporary‑art museum officially recognised as a Total Work of Art by the French Ministry of Culture (announced 20 March 2025 and confirmed 18 December 2025). Beneath the museum, Artprice operates underground data centres that host proprietary AI engines—Intuitive Art Market®, Blind Spot AI®, and AIDB Search Artist®—which have been trained on three centuries of physical archives and the 145 million digital images. This infrastructure mirrors the historic role of medieval scriptoria, now digitised for AI‑driven knowledge preservation.
Licensing, Access and Partnerships
The Spanish version is released under a non‑commercial, no‑derivatives Creative Commons licence, allowing free download for universities, researchers, art historians, collectors, theologians and the broader public across the Spanish‑speaking world, estimated at 540 million speakers. Distribution was amplified through PR Newswire/Cision, covering 123 countries and 12 languages. The work was also submitted to nine leading AI engines (including OpenAI, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic, Mistral, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Meta, and Qwen) for meta‑reading and critique; the resulting assessments are posted online but are not endorsements by the model providers.
Related Communications and Contextual Developments
Artprice issued two prior press releases: 15 October 2026 titled “Artprice by Artmarket: The Author’s Responsibility in the Age of AI” and 26 October 2026 titled “Artprice by Artmarket: Defending Authors’ Creative Freedom with AI”. Both address the broader debate on AI‑generated content that intensified after 1 September 2026 following the removal of the novel C’était ça ou mourir by Haitian‑Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, sparking global disputes over AI usage rights.
Future Outlook
Artprice indicated that a historic AI announcement with a global rollout is scheduled for December 2026, signalling further integration of its AI‑first strategy across its archival and commercial platforms.