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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 9, 2026Published at 3:02 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Muse Code Claims 82.9% on Terminal-Bench, a Number the Verified Leaderboard Does Not Show
Independent testing by Vals ranks the same model 14th on a common-harness version of the benchmark while placing it fifth overall on cost-adjusted performance at $0.69 per test.
Meta launched Muse Code on August 5, a terminal-based coding agent powered by a coding-tuned model it calls Muse Spark 1.2, entering the market held by Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The agent plans edits, runs commands, valida…
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Frontier Labs Race on AI Coding Capability
Coding is becoming a primary competitive battleground among frontier labs, with incumbents standing up permanent coding teams and investing in new training stages (e.g. midtraining) to match leaders like Anthropic; expect recurring reorganizations, benchmarks, and model releases aimed specifically at code.
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