Morning Edition · Saturday, July 18, 2026Published at 1:46 AM EDT · New York
Meta Puts Muse Spark 1.1 Behind a Paid API in a Direct Bid for Coding Agents
The multimodal model has a one-million-token context window and lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, Meta's first paid model offering.
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark 1.1 on the new Meta Model API, its second model from the reorganized lab and the first Meta model offered for paid application programming interface (API) access rather than open weights. It i…
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Frontier Labs Race on AI Coding Capability
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