Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 29, 2026Published at 1:45 AM EDT · New York
Meta Opens a Paid Model API With Muse Spark 1.1, Following Its Muse Image and Video Models
The multimodal agentic model carries a 1-million-token context and prices at 1.25 dollars per million input tokens, putting Meta into the metered-API business.
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, the second model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, and opened the Meta Model API to developers in public preview. Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic tasks with a 1-million-token co…
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