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Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York
Meta Sells Frontier-Tier Tokens at $1.25 In and $4.25 Out, With a Cheaper Tier for Data Rights
Developers who let Meta train on their prompts and completions pay 10 cents per million tokens, trading proprietary traffic for a price no rival lists.
Meta spent a decade giving away models and monetizing user attention instead. The Meta Model API ends that arrangement. Muse Spark 1.1 arrived in July as a multimodal reasoning model with a one-million-token context window aimed at agentic…
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