In order to obtain a high-quality and large-scale high-quality code base for training artificial intelligence models, Google now hopes to pay developers in the Google Play App Store to purchase access to developers' application code bases to improve development tools. Google's idea is to allow developers to continue to retain the intellectual property rights of the code through non-exclusive licenses, and Google "borrows" developers' high-quality code by paying.
Some developers have already received confidential emails from Google, in which Google promotes the many benefits of this program, such as helping Google developer tools and products, supporting the developer ecosystem, etc. Of course, most of the benefits belong to Google, and the most practical thing for developers is that they can earn additional income through this program.
Google said in a confidential email:
Earn off-project income: Get paid handsomely for sharing access to your app's codebase and your archived projects.
Be an early adopter: As a pilot partner, you'll shape how Google works with the developer community in the future.
Increase real impact: Code helps us develop products and services, and your tested code helps us directly.
Retain control of code: This is a non-exclusive agreement, you retain 100% of the intellectual property, the code remains yours, and you retain the rights to monetize the data.
The purpose is to improve Gemini code generation capabilities:
There are many reasons why Google's Gemini model lags behind its competitors. These competitor products have a higher adoption rate in development environments. For example, Claude Code focuses on smart coding and is adopted by many developers and enterprise users; Codex currently has more than 5 million developers and helps developers develop projects; GitHub Copilot's real-time auto-completion is seamlessly integrated with the IDE and can quickly generate development templates.
In the field of intelligent coding, the adoption rate of the Gemini model and Google's anti-gravity tools is tepid. The growth of regular AI conversation chat users cannot change Gemini's dilemma. Google is also aware of the gap and is actively bridging the gap. Of course, this also means that the public code base on the Internet cannot meet Google's needs. As a search engine provider, Google controls a massive index of free resources on the Internet, but Google prefers to obtain the source code of high-quality applications.
Google is currently sending emails to developers of a small number of high-quality applications to promote this plan. Different application code bases may receive different remunerations. As of the time of publication of this article, no developer has disclosed that they have participated in the project and provided specific remuneration figures.