Google pays $10M for bankrupt Spirit Airlines' data, with Mercor reportedly bidding
No Priors · youtube · 2026-09-18
The No Priors podcast covers Google buying Spirit Airlines' data out of bankruptcy for $10M — not the planes, the data. Rumor has it Mercor was bidding for the same dataset.
Key points:
- Underscores the scarcity value of proprietary enterprise data in the AI era
- Data assets are becoming standalone items in bankruptcy sales
- AI companies bidding shows intensifying competition for training/eval data
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