Insiders say that SpaceX has internally discussed purchasing customer and operational information from struggling or defunct startups to find cheaper data sources for artificial intelligence models. The related communications are still informal and may not result in a deal; the company declined to comment.

The buyer is expected to be SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), with targets including customer behavior and operational records to improve models like Grok. Current training mainly relies on data from social platform X and internal annotations from mentors in finance, science, and other tasks, while external corporate data is seen as real business samples that are difficult to replicate from public web pages.

The template is Google's bid of about $10 million for business data to train after Spirit Airlines ceased operations, which sparked privacy controversies among former flight attendants. Musk has told employees that the totality of SpaceX information will be used to train Grok. Irish regulators have been conducting a statutory investigation since April 2025 into how Grok uses posts from European users.

As a publicly traded entity under ticker SPCX, SpaceX, which encompasses aerospace, Starlink, and artificial intelligence, is competing with OpenAI and Anthropic for enterprise customers. As public web data becomes increasingly homogeneous, proprietary data from bankruptcies is becoming the next class of purchasable assets.

From a market mechanism perspective, this represents an event-driven shift in the supply of training data from web scraping to bankruptcy asset packages. Beneficiaries are bankruptcy managers who can standardize and sell liquidation data and model labs that lack data; the pressured parties are the original customers' privacy expectations and niche software relying on exclusive business logs for differentiation. Large-scale buying and selling have yet to form, with pricing anchors still at Google-level tens of millions of dollars, rather than the overall company market value.

Source: Public Information