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- SpaceX has held internal discussions about purchasing customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a source of AI training data, per people familiar with the talks.
- The company frames the approach as a more affordable alternative to other data sources for training artificial intelligence models.
Why it matters: For distressed startups, customer records and operational datasets — normally written off in a shutdown — could find a buyer in SpaceX, which is quietly building out AI ambitions alongside Musk's other ventures and looking for cheaper fuel than what competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic rely on.
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