Meta just broke its open-source religion to charge developers for AI, and Zuckerberg is betting a $145 billion infrastructure gamble on a pricing strategy that undercuts every major rival. Whether that math works out depends on a model the world hasn't seen yet.
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 and, for the first time, charges for access to one of its AI models. Prices are a quarter of what Anthropic and OpenAI charge for their most advanced models.