Vendors · questionnaire
Eighteen of twenty-one AI vendors state their business-data training terms
Each answer from the vendor’s own page or feed, read 4 Nov 2026. Not a score.
| Vendor | Trains on business data | Trains on free use | How long data is kept | Keeps nothing, on request | Where data is held | Sub-processors | Audits named | Publishes incidents | Publishes retirements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model makers | |||||||||
| OpenAI | Stated | Not read | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated |
| Anthropic | Stated | Not read | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated |
| Mistral AI | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not in pages kept | Not in pages kept | Not kept | Stated |
| Cohere | Stated | Not read | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated |
| DeepSeek | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Not kept |
| xAI | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not kept |
| Alibaba Cloud | Stated | Not read | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not in pages kept | Stated | Not kept | Not read |
| Z.ai | Not in pages kept | Not read | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not kept | Not read |
| Moonshot AI | Stated | Not read | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not kept | Not read |
| Meta | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not kept | Not read |
| Tencent | Not in pages kept | Not read | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not kept | Not read |
| Xiaomi | Stated | Not read | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not kept | Not read |
| StepFun | Stated | Not read | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not kept | Not read |
| Clouds | |||||||||
| Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | |
| Microsoft | Stated | Not read | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not in pages kept | Not kept | Stated |
| AWS | Stated | Not read | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not kept | Stated |
| AI applications | |||||||||
| Perplexity | Stated | Not read | Not in pages kept | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not read |
| Microsoft Copilot | Stated | Not read | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not kept | Not read |
| GitHub Copilot | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Not in pages kept | Stated | Not read |
| Cursor | Stated | Not read | Not in pages kept | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Stated | Not read |
| Gemini Apps | Stated | Not read | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not in pages kept | Stated | Not in pages kept | Not kept | Not read |