Morning Edition · Monday, August 3, 2026Published at 1:38 AM EDT · New York
Meta Opens a Paid Frontier API With Muse Spark 1.1, Ending Its Open-Only Posture
The multimodal agentic model is available through an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API priced at $1.25 and $4.25 per million input and output tokens.
Meta Superintelligence Labs introduced Muse Spark 1.1 and the Meta Model API, a public preview that puts Meta into the same metered-API business as Anthropic and OpenAI. Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic tasks…
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