Morning Edition · Saturday, August 1, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
Meta Opens Muse Spark 1.1 to Outside Developers Through Its First Model API
The multimodal agentic model carries a one-million-token context and list prices near a quarter of comparable OpenAI and Anthropic tiers.
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.1, the second model from its Superintelligence Labs, alongside a public preview of the Meta Model API. It is the first time external developers can call a Muse Spark model directly rather than reaching it only…
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