Micro1 is paying midsize companies $100,000 to $2 million for their internal data, and CEOs are cashing in before the AI data boom matures.

Peter Steinberger, the developer behind the open-source AI agent OpenClaw and now an OpenAI employee, revealed the eye-watering cost of running AI agents at scale at Cloudflare's Connect conference.

The Series B, co-led by Forerunner and Menlo, signals a shift from solo AI copilots to collaborative agent workforces.