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Morning Edition · Monday, July 6, 2026Published at 6:57 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Muse Spark Points to Compute Efficiency as the New Battleground
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs claims frontier capability using more than an order of magnitude less compute than Llama 4 Maverick, and it powers Meta's smart glasses.
Muse Spark is the first frontier model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, built on a new training stack. Meta says it reaches comparable capability with over an order of magnitude less compute than Llama 4 Maverick. It is a natively multimod…
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