AI Training Startup Micro1 Files Late $12.5M Bid for Spirit Airlines Data, Aiming to Unseat Google

AI data-labeling startup Micro1 filed a late $12.5M bid with Spirit Airlines' lawyers to top Google's $10M winning offer for the bankrupt carrier's business records, per a Bloomberg-cited court filing. The dataset spans roughly 100M de-identified emails, 500M Microsoft Teams messages, 30M lines of custom code and employee files dating to 1986; a bankruptcy judge will weigh Micro1's late offer at a September 9 hearing after former Spirit flight attendants also objected to inclusion of their records.