Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

Meta is offering steep discounts, averaging about 95%, on its new coding AI model for users who agree to share their prompts and outputs to help train future versions. Standard pricing charges $1.25 per million input tokens, while contributors pay 10 cents, and output tokens drop from $4.25 per million to 20 cents under the contributor model. The company is pursuing this approach because obtaining training data has proven difficult, including a failed internal initiative to track employee computer usage that faced criticism. This pricing strategy matters because user interaction data is vital for improving AI agents, and Meta is essentially paying companies to share information that large enterprises typically keep private under more expensive data-protection agreements.