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Meta (Meta Platforms, Inc.) is the Menlo Park, California company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. In AI it matters through Meta AI, the Muse Spark and Muse Wonder models built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the Muse personal agent app, and its open-weight releases, most recently the 816-billion-parameter Muse Spark Open on October 15, 2026.

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Models · ExplainerMeta Muse Spark explained: the closed model behind Meta AI, the Muse agent app, and what's openMuse Spark, launched April 8, 2026, is Meta's proprietary replacement for Llama at the top of its lineup. It now powers Meta AI, the Muse personal agent (on iPad since October 7) and a paid API. What it is, what it costs, and how much of it is actually open.·7 min read
Open source · NewsMeta Muse Spark Open: the 816B open-weight model, its Muse Model License and what it takes to runMeta released Muse Spark Open on October 15, 2026: an 816B-parameter (42B active) open-weight model with a 1M-token context, under a new Muse Model License. What the license actually allows, what hardware it needs, and how Meta's own benchmark table stacks up.·6 min read
Models · NewsMeta Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full: price, availability and what Artificial Analysis foundMeta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, 2026. Muse Wonder costs $4/$20 per million tokens on Meta's API; Wonder Full is only in paid Muse Code plans. Artificial Analysis scores them 52 and 56 on its Intelligence Index.·5 min read

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