Morning Edition · Sunday, July 12, 2026Published at 1:29 AM EDT · New York
Meta Ships Muse Image and Previews Muse Video, Its First In-House Visual Models
Meta says Muse Image ranks second on the Arena human-preference leaderboard for text-to-image, trailing GPT Image 2 while beating Nano Banana 2 on editing.
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Image on July 7 and previewed Muse Video, the group's first in-house image and video generation models, according to the announcement. Muse Image rolled out immediately across Meta AI, Instagram, an…
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