Morning Edition · Saturday, July 11, 2026Published at 1:46 AM EDT · New York
Meta Adds Closed Muse Image and Muse Video Models, Extending Its Paid Stack to Generative Media
The Superintelligence Labs suite pairs the Muse Spark agent with generation models, all metered through the Meta Model API rather than released as open weights.
Alongside the Muse Spark agent, Meta Superintelligence Labs introduced Muse Image and Muse Video, generative models for still images and video, completing a paid suite that now spans reasoning, agentic tool use, and media generation. Like M…
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US Labs Close Weights to Monetize
Western frontier labs increasingly retreat from open weights toward closed, metered APIs to capture revenue, ceding the downloadable open-weight tier to Chinese suppliers and splitting the market by license as much as by capability.
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