Sarcasm aside, tried it (with instant mode), it's an impressive model.
It nailed all the ChatGPT meme gotchas (walk to the carwash, Alice 50 brothers, upside down cup, R's in strawberry, which number is bigger, 9.11 or 9.9?)
I guess all that money poaching OpenAI / Anthropic talent went somewhere...
Now, would I use "Meta Muse Code" or "Muse CoWork" if I have to have a facebook account to all of my developers? Maybe not.
Would I use it via an API key? I might, depends on the pricing!
glerk 37 minutes ago [-]
Personal as in Meta gets your personal data so they can sell you more ads.
2pointsomone 11 minutes ago [-]
Looooooool
hackrmn 1 hours ago [-]
The hero image on the linked page, which consists of a muted teal background with the words "Introducing Muse Spark", weighs in at 3,5MB. I don't even...
Overpower0416 36 minutes ago [-]
lol it literally took me 2s to google search "optimize image for website" and 10s to upload and get a smaller sized image.
The result for that specific image is: 500kb. 85% decrease in size
BugsJustFindMe 8 minutes ago [-]
An indistinguishable JPG is 170KB. An SVG would be 20KB.
sofixa 23 minutes ago [-]
You can even automatically do that on your CDN/delivery/web server layer. Or as part of your web deployment pipeline.
Overpower0416 18 minutes ago [-]
Yes, but it might be a little too advance for Meta ;)
zfol_510 42 minutes ago [-]
And it doesn't even look high-res.
hungryhobbit 1 hours ago [-]
Someday our robot overlords will be intelligent enough to ... optimize images!
(But today is not that day.)
Invictus0 1 hours ago [-]
complaining about sand on the beach
fooqux 26 minutes ago [-]
It's not sand on the beach, it's garbage on the beach.
hackrmn 1 hours ago [-]
I am simply offended. By Meta's lack of sensibilities (or ability) towards use of images on the Web while touting their new flavour of artificial intelligence as a product.
Invictus0 8 minutes ago [-]
old man shouts at cloud
plombe 6 minutes ago [-]
Looks like a lightweight article.
But memory usage went from 316MB -> 502 MB when I hit refresh.
Not sure why? Any one have any ideas? Why does it need half a gig of ram in the first place?
daft_pink 2 hours ago [-]
This really reinforces the idea that the AI race and the Railroad Mania of the 19th century are very similar.
So many different companies are going to have similarly powerful ai that there will be no moat around it and it will be cheap. They will never earn their investment back.
dist-epoch 2 hours ago [-]
The moat is in the compute and the energy access.
And further down the line in chips, which is why Elon is building a fab now.
There are plenty of capable models on HuggingFace, yet I have no way of running them.
khalic 1 hours ago [-]
Give it a few years, or month. Tiny models are getting outrageously good
mobattah 51 minutes ago [-]
Exactly. We’ll see the cost of AI continue to drop.
I was saying this for years about Tesla’s FSD - they finally had to give in and drop the price to stay competitive.
cedws 14 minutes ago [-]
That fab will never be delivered. In five years you might see the manufacturing equivalent of a person dancing in spandex.
nutjob2 9 minutes ago [-]
> which is why Elon is building a fab now
At least he says he's doing that. It doesn't really make sense since you're not going to achieve an advanced node from a standing start in a practical time frame and cost.
Sounds like more Musk flavored vapor.
GalaxyNova 5 minutes ago [-]
It is unfortunate that they decided to stop doing open-weight releases.
What could have been interesting has been reduced to simply another subpar LLM release.
dhruvyads 3 minutes ago [-]
Sad to see it's not going to be open source.
hvass 15 minutes ago [-]
Genuine question: Why release this the day after Mythos? It does not appear SOTA (just based on benchmarks). OpenAI will likely release Spud tomorrow.
eranation 41 seconds ago [-]
That's a really good question, my sarcastic mind thinks that Anthropic rushed the Mythos announcement of fears of Meta stealing their thunder... (I guess someone leaked that, a LOT of anthropic folks are ex meta... so, you know)
Just a speculation, I have no real knowledge about it.
moab 2 hours ago [-]
"Muse Spark is available now, and Contemplating mode will be rolling out gradually in meta.ai."
How does one get their hands on these models? They are not open-source, right? I go to meta.ai, but it's just a chat interface---no equivalent to codex or claud code? Can you use this through OpenCode? Is meta charging for model access, or is the gathering of chat data a sufficiently large tithe?
meetpateltech 2 hours ago [-]
"It will be available in private preview via API to select partners, and we hope to open-source future versions of the model."
I can't think of any "select partners" that would want to use this non-SOTA model. Just put it on OpenRouter.
giancarlostoro 1 hours ago [-]
If Microsoft is a select partner, maybe they could shove it into Copilot for VS or something, but yeah, I'm wondering the same, maybe Apple could be one of their partners too?
monkeydust 2 hours ago [-]
TBD it seems. So far the only explained usage pattern is through a Meta product (Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram).
moab 2 hours ago [-]
So to verify their claims and see how strong these models are, the answer is "believe us"?
Note: I'm expressing some skepticism here largely due to how recent rollouts from Meta flopped. Sincerely hoping that they do better this time around!
nemomarx 2 hours ago [-]
I assume the answer is try it out in the chat mode? You could run your usual benches through that right
pstuart 2 hours ago [-]
I appreciate that they build this stuff for their own benefit, but I don't want to feed even more of my private info. Hopefully the models will become public or lead to equivalent models from other sources.
ddp26 2 hours ago [-]
The second paragraph starts "Muse Spark is the first step on our scaling ladder and the first product of a ground-up overhaul of our AI efforts. To support further scaling, we are making strategic investments..."
This article is about Meta, not about the user. Who signs off on these? Is the intended audience other people at Meta, not the user?
tjkrusinski 2 hours ago [-]
The article is published primarily to signal to the market that Meta is serious in its efforts to compete in building frontier ai models.
They want to 1) attract talent, 2) tell wall street they can play in this space as well, 3) help employees feel the company is moving in the right direction.
A frontier LLM doesn't apply to their core consumer products.
Lihh27 2 hours ago [-]
the blog is the product. investor deck posted as a tech launch
conradkay 2 hours ago [-]
Stock up 9% today, very pleasant for Zuck if you do the math on his net worth :)
hungryhobbit 45 minutes ago [-]
I mean, kinda? It's not like Zuck is selling his stock tomorrow, so daily fluctuations in stock price don't really affect him.
nharada 46 minutes ago [-]
Saying nothing about the actual performance of this model, it does strike me how .... minimal(?) this announcement is. Their safety section is like 2 paragraphs about bioweapons. Go look at the reports for OpenAI and Anthropic's model releases. It's like 50+ pages of tests, examples, reports, and benchmarks across a bunch of safety and wellfare metrics.
If Meta wants to be seen as a cutting edge massive lab they need to come across as one instead of looking like a school project version of a frontier model.
WarmWash 23 minutes ago [-]
Rumor on the ground is that they expected a much stronger model than this one.
htrp 7 minutes ago [-]
llama4 behemoth problems?
nubg 18 minutes ago [-]
Can you elaborate?
khurdula 42 minutes ago [-]
"we hope to open-source future versions of the model."
Love to see it. Cheers!
chankstein38 2 hours ago [-]
Personal Superintelligence made me think this was an open-source model being released and I was excited. Then I continued reading and I'll just wait until the model comes out.
nubg 19 minutes ago [-]
NOTHING about this is personal! No weights were released!
It nailed all the ChatGPT meme gotchas (walk to the carwash, Alice 50 brothers, upside down cup, R's in strawberry, which number is bigger, 9.11 or 9.9?)
I guess all that money poaching OpenAI / Anthropic talent went somewhere...
Now, would I use "Meta Muse Code" or "Muse CoWork" if I have to have a facebook account to all of my developers? Maybe not.
Would I use it via an API key? I might, depends on the pricing!
The result for that specific image is: 500kb. 85% decrease in size
(But today is not that day.)
So many different companies are going to have similarly powerful ai that there will be no moat around it and it will be cheap. They will never earn their investment back.
And further down the line in chips, which is why Elon is building a fab now.
There are plenty of capable models on HuggingFace, yet I have no way of running them.
I was saying this for years about Tesla’s FSD - they finally had to give in and drop the price to stay competitive.
At least he says he's doing that. It doesn't really make sense since you're not going to achieve an advanced node from a standing start in a practical time frame and cost.
Sounds like more Musk flavored vapor.
What could have been interesting has been reduced to simply another subpar LLM release.
Just a speculation, I have no real knowledge about it.
How does one get their hands on these models? They are not open-source, right? I go to meta.ai, but it's just a chat interface---no equivalent to codex or claud code? Can you use this through OpenCode? Is meta charging for model access, or is the gathering of chat data a sufficiently large tithe?
from Facebook Newsroom: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/04/introducing-muse-spark-met...
Note: I'm expressing some skepticism here largely due to how recent rollouts from Meta flopped. Sincerely hoping that they do better this time around!
This article is about Meta, not about the user. Who signs off on these? Is the intended audience other people at Meta, not the user?
They want to 1) attract talent, 2) tell wall street they can play in this space as well, 3) help employees feel the company is moving in the right direction.
A frontier LLM doesn't apply to their core consumer products.
If Meta wants to be seen as a cutting edge massive lab they need to come across as one instead of looking like a school project version of a frontier model.
Love to see it. Cheers!