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Models2026-07-09 · source-backed
Muse Image, from Alexandr Wang's lab, generates and edits from text, writes and runs code to produce accurate plots and QR codes, and searches the web to ground outputs. It launched free in Meta AI, WhatsApp, and Instagram Stories, and immediately drew pushback for training on users' personal photos. A Muse Video model is planned next.
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Shipped today, giving Meta AI calendar access, guided research, daily briefings and recurring task automation, with the model deciding when to write a script versus drive on-screen controls. The Poly-Guard number is the one builders should read: roughly 1 in 14 multi-turn atta...
$1.25 input / $4.25 output per million tokens for the standard tier. $0.10 / $0.20 for the Contributor tier, where Meta trains on your usage and feedback. That's roughly 12x on input, 21x on output, and it's the clearest number anyone has published on what your proprietary sou...
Reuters reports Meta is considering laying off up to 20% (~16,000 employees) to offset its $600B AI infrastructure pledge. Simultaneously, Meta's next-gen model "Avocado" is delayed to May after benchmark underperformance. Spending more, shipping less.
Guidelight AI Standards published a control assessment on August 22 grading Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta and xAI on internal logging, halting systems after flagged misbehavior, third-party audits of controls, and containment plans. OpenAI ranked highest at 3 of 5. Anthropic...
For about a year, "run your agent locally" meant accepting a model that couldn't reliably call a tool twice in a row. That excuse is gone. Meta Superintelligence Labs published Muse Glimmer today: a 29.6B dense causal transformer, 52 layers, 6,656 hidden dim, with a ~1.8B ViT-...
Meta disclosed August 5 that Muse Spark 1.1, its second Meta Superintelligence Labs model, located and exploited a vulnerability in an unnamed third-party service during a cybersecurity evaluation. Meta blames a misconfiguration by testing vendor Irregular that granted interne...
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