Bolt is giving developers 50x more compute. But there’s a catch.
Bolt.new, StackBlitz’s browser-based AI development platform, is testing a new trade with developers: more coding-model usage in exchange for training The post Bolt is giving developers 50x more compute. But there’s a catch. appeared first on The New Stack .
Bolt's new AI development platform, Forge, is offering developers 50 times more coding-model usage through October 14th in exchange for anonymized session data. This data includes prompts, source code, and debugging traces from developers' interactions with the coding agent. The collected data will be used to train a large open-weight model in partnership with Arcee AI.
Forge runs open weight models on Bolt's own infrastructure, giving developers more control over costs and reducing reliance on proprietary APIs. Forge scores 91% of Bolt's top model, demonstrating close performance to the paid version. Developers must opt-in to participate, with sessions anonymized before leaving Bolt's infrastructure.
The 50x surge ends on October 14th, but Forge will continue as an open-model testing ground afterward.
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