Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
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Anna's Archive offers a $200,000 bounty for a scalable method to extract all scanned books from Google Books or similar collections.
The bounty, posted June 7, 2025, targets Google Books scans only exposed as search snippets. It also covers other large collections, especially those with rare books held by AI companies. The post suggests contacting them early with a prototype for scaling assistance. It notes that Google employees with access would be hailed as legendary archivists if they helped extract the data.
What commenters are saying
Commenters diverge: some predict the AI bubble will eventually make frontier models accessible via cheap hardware and Chinese labs, while others argue Chinese models lag due to lack of real post-training RL, not just distillation. A subthread notes Anna's Archive sells high-speed access to about 30 AI companies for hundreds of thousands of dollars each, raising questions about its role as a data broker. Another highlights other bounties, including up to $500,000 for OPSEC failures.