Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly in talks to buy customer and operational data from defunct and struggling startups, a move that could feed the training of its Grok AI models.
\n\nBloomberg reports that any data SpaceX does acquire would reportedly go to xAI, the SpaceX subsidiary that owns and develops Grok.
\n\nMusk’s xAI already trains Grok on posts from X, the social media platform that falls under the same corporate umbrella, unless users opt out. Buying data from shuttered companies would give it another source of training material.
\n\nBreitbart News previously reported that Google bought the data of defunct Spirit Airlines to train its Gemini AI:
\n\nGoogle has said it intends to use the data to train its AI large language models. According to court records, the purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 7.2 billion records tracking competitors’ flights, and 7.5 billion passenger transaction records dating back to 2008.
\n\nIt also covers more than 175,000 employee records from as far back as 1986. Beyond these figures, Google will gain access to information on revenue, aircraft operations, employee productivity, audits and fraud investigations, marketing campaigns, human resources files, project management records, and pricing curve data.
\n\nGrok currently…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/
