Morning Edition · Sunday, August 2, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
Meta Opens Its Frontier Model to Developers for the First Time With the Muse Spark API
Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal agentic model with a one-million-token context window, offered as Meta's first paid model application programming interface (API) in public preview for US developers.
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 and, for the first time, opened a metered Model API so outside developers can build on its frontier model directly. The public preview is limited to US-based developers. Muse Spark 1.1 is the second model from M…
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