Why we bid $12.5 million for Spirit Airlines’s data: As you may have seen in the news, we are aiming to acquire the Spirit operational data. We'd like to transparently & directly explain why. The future of AI is a bet on two things: the messiness of the real world and the brilliance of the humans working inside it. The combination of these two things results in a new dimension of scale called realism. Realism is the most significant thing that has ever happened to model training. It’s what lets RL environments and tasks match the conditions a model is deployed into. The limit is the real world itself. But the real world is also dynamic. It grows with a company and shifts as operations evolve. There is not a binary scaling of entering the real world. Realism keeps scaling as long as real work keeps happening. As a data lab, we want this data to benefit the entire AI ecosystem, while ensuring labs that we partner with for this data, agree to strict privacy obligations. This includes keeping the data away from labs outside of U.S. and U.S-allied countries. Our mission is to push the frontier in novel ways, with a human & privacy first approach. To do that, we've bid on a portion of Spirit’s Airline’s non-sensitive operational data. Effectively scaling realism requires de-identification as a core competency. Very few organizations can do this. We believe the few that can have an obligation to act transparently. That’s why we’ve made binding commitments. We will prohibit re-associating the data and will not profile any former employee. We’re paying for an independent data ombudsman to review the data and how we use it. Furthermore, our offer aims to create net new opportunities for as many as we can from the 17,000+ former Spirit employees. We’re providing former Spirit employees preferential access to paid human data roles on our platform, along with free access to our AI training and reskilling curriculum. These commitments bind us to spending at least $1M. That is just the minimum. It’s entirely possible we spend orders of magnitude more than $1M working with and training former Spirit employees to help define the frontier. We think this transaction will set the terms for how data like this changes hands from here. Those terms should be worth copying.