Google Scavenges The Corpse Of Spirit Airlines To Train AI In $10M Deal
Google has just purchased the digital footprint of defunct Spirit Airlines for $10 million in a court bankruptcy auction, securing a massive archive of corporate communications and operational data to train its AI models.
Disclosed in filings with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (and spotted by Bloomberg Law), the winning bid sees Google’s parent company Alphabet beating out rival AI firm Mercor's $7.5 million offer to acquire the bankrupt carrier's internal dataset. Pending final approval by Judge Sean Lane, the transaction will grant Google access to an extraordinarily dense treasure trove of real-world corporate data and operational history.
The purchase encompasses roughly 100 million internal emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chat messages, 17 million OneDrive files, and over 175,000 employee records spanning back to 1986. There's also immense technical and commercial depth to the data: 30 million lines of proprietary software code, 763,000...
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