Meta says its new Muse model has reached the AI frontier

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Meta has released Muse Wonder, known internally as Watermelon, and says it matches ChatGPT and Claude on coding and professional work. It has not said whether the weights will be published, which decides what it owes under the EU AI Act.

Meta has released Muse Wonder, the most capable model to come out of the AI unit Mark Zuckerberg spent fourteen months rebuilding. Internally it was Watermelon.

It claims parity with ChatGPT and Claude on coding and on financial and legal work, chief AI officer Alexandr Wang told Bloomberg. The claim arrives without published benchmarks.

Meta has hit its own internal date. The Information reported in August that the company was targeting October for Watermelon, without establishing whether it would ship under the Muse name.

It is the third frontier claim this year. Wang said much the same about Muse Spark 1.3 in September, and Zuckerberg called the...

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