Corporate AI data transactions
Operating history is becoming an AI asset class.
A longitudinal record of transactions in which proprietary corporate data, institutional memory, and real-world operational knowledge are materially used to train, customize, validate, or ground AI systems.
8qualifying observations
8industries represented
$10mselected dataset auction bid
pending court approval
pending court approval
€100m+bundled AI program value
not a dataset price
not a dataset price
Canonical records
8 of 8 observations
Scores measure different things; a high-value corpus may provide weak price discovery.
| Date | Data owner | AI buyer | Industry | Corpus type | Structure | Disclosed economics | Asset score | Signal score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2025active | AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol Myers Squibb, Takeda, Astex Pharmaceuticals | OpenFold Consortium, AlQuraishi Lab, Apheris | Pharmaceuticals & biotechnology | Scientific / pharmaceuticalEmbedded / Continuing · Renewable Corpus | Federated / Controlled Learning Rights | Not disclosednot disclosed | 95 | 46 |
| Apr 16, 2026reported completed | Cielo24 | Undisclosed AI buyer | Media technology | Internal communicationsStranded / Separable · Finite Corpus | Data Asset Acquisition | Hundreds of thousands (reported)reported dataset specific | 73 | 59 |
| Aug 14, 2026pending court approval | Spirit Aviation Holdings / Spirit Airlines | Google LLC (selected bidder; challenged) | Aviation | Internal communicationsStranded / Separable · Finite Corpus | Data Asset Acquisition | $10m selected biddataset and related internal software specific | 89 | 93 |
| Sep 2, 2026announced active | Caterpillar | FieldAI | Industrial equipment & construction | Industrial operational dataEmbedded / Continuing · Renewable Corpus | Strategic Model Co-Development | Not disclosednot disclosed | 90 | 33 |
| Sep 3, 2026announced development | NAVER Cloud, LG CNS, KEPCO KDN, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, Financial Security Institute, KISTI, LG Uplus, Other consortium members | NAVER Cloud consortium, NAVER Cloud, LG AI Research | Cybersecurity & critical infrastructure | Cybersecurity recordsEmbedded / Continuing · Renewable Corpus | Federated / Controlled Learning Rights | Government compute support; cash not disclosedbundled program support | 95 | 45 |
| Sep 9, 2026announced active | Samsung Electronics | Mistral AI | Semiconductors | Manufacturing historyEmbedded / Continuing · Renewable Corpus | Proprietary Data + Equity Partnership | Not disclosedbundled with strategic equity relationship | 98 | 40 |
| Sep 10, 2026launched active | LSEG, PitchBook, Daloopa, Crunchbase, Quartr, LSEG News | OpenAI | Financial information services | Financial datasetsEmbedded / Continuing · Renewable Corpus | Proprietary Corpus License | Not disclosednot disclosed | 90 | 33 |
| Sep 15, 2026announced three year program | TotalEnergies | Mistral AI | Energy & geoscience | Geological / subsurface dataEmbedded / Continuing · Renewable Corpus | Strategic Model Co-Development | >€100m programbundled research compute people and implementation | 98 | 58 |