AppLovin CEO Adam Foroughi says game studios were bought for AI training data

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""Yeah, we we sold all those games. We bought them originally as a data play. We when we built our first deep learning model, we needed to have data to train it and game studios don't tend to want to share data to third party companies.""

Adam Foroughi says AppLovin acquired mobile game studios mainly to secure data to train its first deep-learning advertising model. He argues outside studios were reluctant to share data with third-party adtech firms. He says AppLovin later sold the studios after the model succeeded and partners began working with it.