Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

Meta publicly launched a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic.

Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April, can engage in multi-step reasoning and handle complex processes, manage digital workflows, and deploy new features in enterprise systems, the company says.

Meta is a bit behind its competitors here; Anthropic and OpenAI have offered similar models for quite some time. But that doesn’t mean Meta’s entry into the market isn’t a threat.

An ongoing source of competitiveness within the AI industry remains the cost of usage, and Meta appears to be offering a competitive rate. Reuters reports thatthe company will charge $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens. That puts it in line (albeit slightly above) Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 and...

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