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Morning Edition · Saturday, July 18, 2026Published at 2:03 AM EDT · New York

Meta Opens Muse Spark 1.1 to Developers via a Cheaper Model API

The multimodal agentic model carries a 1-million-token context window and prices at $1.25 input and $4.25 output per million tokens, undercutting frontier rivals.

Meta Opens Muse Spark 1.1 to Developers via a Cheaper Model API

Meta has opened Muse Spark 1.1 to developers through a new Model API now in public preview. The Model API is an application programming interface (API), and the release is Meta's second from Meta Superintelligence Labs and its clearest move…

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Frontier Labs Race on AI Coding Capability

Coding is becoming a primary competitive battleground among frontier labs, with incumbents standing up permanent coding teams and investing in new training stages (e.g. midtraining) to match leaders like Anthropic; expect recurring reorganizations, benchmarks, and model releases aimed specifically at code.