Meta released its most powerful artificial intelligence model yet, with its chief AI officer saying its capabilities are edging closer to top competitors.
Developers will be able to access and pay for Muse Spark 1.3, an updated version of its most advanced model, the company said. It will soon roll out the update to users of Meta’s social media platforms, like Instagram and Facebook, as well as Meta AI.
“This is our biggest jump so far on model performance,” Meta’s chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said in an interview, pointing to advancements in the model’s coding and agentic capabilities, or ability to complete tasks on behalf of human users. Wang said the update put Meta on par with recently released AI models from its rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
Wang said Muse Spark 1.3 is “competitive” with Anthropic’s model, Claude Fable 5.1, and “better than” OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, particularly when it comes to coding, though OpenAI will soon be releasing a new, even more advanced model known as Astra. In his opinion, Meta’s model outperforms “any of the current Chinese models out there.”
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