Meta Introduces a Big New AI Model for the Agentic Age

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A public preview of Muse Spark 1.1 is now available to developers.

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Meta on Thursday announced the next version of its multimodal Spark AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, calling it a significant upgrade from its predecessor. The model is built specifically for agentic tasks and has promises major gains in areas such as computer use, coding and multimodal understanding.

Spark 1.1 follows the launch of Muse Image, its new image-generation tool, which already has some Instagram users opting out. (You can learn how to do that here.)

With the likes of OpenAI and Anthropicstorming headlines with new and advanced AI models, Meta's announcement is a sign that the company is jumping back into the AI race after lagging behind for more than a year and undergoing extensive reorganization. The model was released by what Meta calls its Superintelligence Labs, an outfit led by...

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