Meta offers 95% discount on new AI model in exchange for watching you use it
technextpreneur · x · 2026-09-05
Meta is discounting its new AI model by up to 95% for users who let the company observe how they use it — a direct price-for-data trade aimed at a problem every AI lab faces: getting real usage data to improve agentic tools.
For heavy users it's a privacy-for-cost tradeoff, and a signal of how strategically valuable real-world agent usage data has become.
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