Ars Technica2 Meta announced Muse Spark on Wednesday, the inaugural AI model from its Superintelligence Labs. Marketed as a "ground‑up overhaul" of the company’s artificial‑intelligence work, the proprietary system will draw on public content from Instagram, Facebook and Threads to enhance its answers. While Meta says future Muse models will be open source, Spark marks a clear break from the earlier Llama family. Benchmarks show the model performing on par with or better than rival offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI, though Meta admits gaps remain in long‑term reasoning and coding tasks.
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