Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training

9to5Google · 2 months ago · 10 ● 5 sources

Google purchased a $10 million dataset from defunct Spirit Airlines at a bankruptcy auction, acquiring hundreds of millions of Teams chats, over 100 million emails, 30 million lines of code, and 7.5 billion passenger transaction records for AI training. The company stated the data will be scrubbed of personally identifiable information by a third party before use and excludes passenger profiles and loyalty programs. Google gains operational, business, and software data to train its models while Spirit's remaining assets are liquidated through bankruptcy proceedings.