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Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias
Spirit Airlines' Data Sale, the Model Too Powerful to Ship, & the Landlords of AI | 149
52 minutes Posted Aug 27, 2026 at 10:00 am.
The Gorilla in the Room
Google Buys Bankrupt Spirit Airlines' Data
Why Specialized Data Is AI's Next Frontier
Turning Association Data Into Products
OpenAI's Astra Solves Unsolved Math Problems
AI as a Research Partner for Scientific Associations
Neoclouds: Renting the GPUs Behind the AI Boom
Google Quietly Ships Gemini 3.7 Flash
Why Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Winning on Speed and Price
Closing Advice: Build AI Fluency, Spot the Gorilla
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Send us Fan Mail When Spirit Airlines went bankrupt, its planes and gates weren't the only assets on the auction block — Google paid $10 million for its data. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias use that sale to dig into what's actually valuable in AI right now: not bigger models, but the specialized data only your organization holds. They trace the Spirit Airlines deal, unpack OpenAI's Astra model solving open math problems that had stumped researchers for decades, and explain Neoclouds, the ...