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Bolt Forge trades 50x usage for build data

Bolt.new launched Forge, giving individual Pro users up to 50x more usage on open models through October 14 in exchange for an explicit opt-in to share anonymized build sessions. Bolt’s preview documentation says those sessions will help Arcee AI train a trillion-parameter-class open-weight model; Forge’s internal Build Index score is 92.2 versus 101 for Bolt’s top paid model. Treat the allowance as a data-for-compute trade, not free capacity: keep sensitive repositories out, and use the open-weight path for experiments until independent evaluations catch up with the archive’s open-model adoption analysis.