Exclusive: Google expands pilot paying developers and small businesses for proprietary offline code
sourdub · reddit · 2026-10-02
Per a VentureBeat exclusive, Google is expanding a pilot program that pays developers and small businesses for proprietary, offline code and other data.
It marks a shift from relying on public web data toward directly purchasing private code and datasets — a sign that the competition for high-quality training data is extending into offline, proprietary sources. Details are in the linked report.
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