Google has been quietly emailing select Google Play developers with an offer to buy access to their app code through what it calls a “confidential content offer pilot,” framing it as a revenue opportunity where developers get paid for sharing the code powering their apps and archived projects, according to 404 Media. Developers retain their IP rights and the license is non-exclusive. The email never mentions AI, but a link in it leads to a Google page about paying for non-public content to improve its AI models, suggesting the goal is training data to strengthen Gemini’s coding tools against rivals like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.
