(CNN) — Did you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding Google’s artificial intelligence model. The discount airline halted all operations in May, and it’s been selling off its remaining assets through the b…
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Google is buying all of Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AI models
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Spirit Airlines Is Gone. Its 40-Year Data Trail May Still Shape How Travelers Buy Flights
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AI startup Micro1 wants to challenge Google's winning bid for Spirit Airlines data with a higher offer
(CNN) — Did you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding Google’s artificial intelligence model. The discount airline halted all operations in May, and it’s been selling off its remaining assets through the b…
Google is paying $10 million for something few people would expect to find at a bankrupt airline: roughly 100 million employee emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, and years of internal business records that could help train its AI models.
“Spirit takes all data privacy concerns seriously and will continue to work with the appropriate parties to resolve any outstanding issues,” a spokesperson for the defunct airline said.
Google won a bankruptcy auction for a collection of Spirit's corporate data, including internal documents, workflows, employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, and software code.
