Google wins $10M Spirit auction for AI training data — SkimNews
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- Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' deidentified business data, software code, and operations with a $10M bid
- The acquired data trove is intended by Google to improve its AI models
Why it matters: Spirit Airlines, currently working through bankruptcy, is monetizing its operational assets at a distressed-asset price. For Google, the $10M deal provides a large volume of deidentified business and operations data to feed AI model training — a dataset acquisition outside its typical consumer-data channels.
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