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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 23, 2026Published at 2:19 AM EDT · New York
Meta Sells Its Own Frontier Model at $1.25 and $4.25 per Million Tokens
Muse Spark 1.1 carries a one-million-token context window and opened the Meta Model API to United States developers in public preview, followed by a dedicated coding model in August.
Meta spent a decade giving models away. It now meters them. Muse Spark 1.1, the second model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, shipped on July 9 with a one-million-token context window and improvements in tool use, computer use and coding,…
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