Google is buying Spirit Airlines’ old data for $10 million to improve its AI

Google’s next big AI model could end up using troves of old data from Spirit Airlines.

Google successfully bid $10 million for troves of corporate data from Spirit Airlines, the budget airline that went under earlier this year, according to Chapter 11 bankruptcy court filings. A spokesperson from Google told Business Insider that this data from Spirit Airlines “can be helpful in improving our products and AI models.”

“We are buying the company’s internal data and custom software, but we are not buying their customer or credit card information,” the spokesperson said.

AI training startup Mercor made a rival bid at $7.5 million.

“Companies are…