Recently, according to a new notice released by the United States Southern District Bankruptcy Court, tech giant Google has officially acquired a batch of core corporate data from the bankrupt low-cost airline Spirit Airlines (Spirit Airline) for 10 million US dollars (approximately 67.531 million Chinese yuan at the current exchange rate). In this bidding process, Google beat Mercor, an artificial intelligence talent recruitment company that offered 7.5 million US dollars.
The scale and diversity of the acquired data are vast, including 7.5 billion passenger transaction records accumulated since 2008, 7.2 billion competitive flight pricing information, 500 million Microsoft Teams chat and collaboration records, 100 million emails, 30 million lines of underlying code, and more than 175,000 employee records dating back as early as 1986, along with a series of other important business data.
To ensure data compliance and privacy security, the dataset will undergo strict anonymization processing by a third-party institution before being officially delivered to Google, and it does not contain any personal privacy data or confidential materials. A Google spokesperson responded that these valuable corporate data, after in-depth processing, will be fully used to improve the company's various products and artificial intelligence models.
