Meta Platforms Inc. released its most powerful artificial intelligence model to date, and the company's chief AI officer said the performance of this new model is one step closer to that of top competitors. Meta said developers can access and pay to use Muse Spark 1.3 starting Wednesday. The company will also soon roll out this update to social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, as well as Meta AI users. “This is our biggest jump in model performance to date,” Meta's chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang said in an interview on Wednesday. In particular, he mentioned the new model's progress in programming and agent capabilities. Alexandr Wang said that this upgrade puts Meta at a similar level to AI models recently released by OpenAI and Anthropic. He said Muse Spark 1.3 is “competitive” compared to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and “superior” to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, particularly in terms of programming tasks. However, OpenAI will soon release a new, more advanced model, Astra.

Meta Platforms Inc. released its most powerful artificial intelligence model to date, and the company's chief AI officer said the performance of this new model is one step closer to that of top competitors. Meta said developers can access and pay to use Muse Spark 1.3 starting Wednesday. The company will also soon roll out this update to social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, as well as Meta AI users. “This is our biggest jump in model performance to date,” Meta's chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang said in an interview on Wednesday. In particular, he mentioned the new model's progress in programming and agent capabilities. Alexandr Wang said that this upgrade puts Meta at a similar level to AI models recently released by OpenAI and Anthropic. He said Muse Spark 1.3 is “competitive” compared to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and “superior” to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, particularly in terms of programming tasks. However, OpenAI will soon release a new, more advanced model, Astra.