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Morning Edition · Monday, August 24, 2026Published at 3:20 AM EDT · New York
Meta Is Selling Its Frontier Model by the Token While Keeping the Weights Closed
The Meta Model API prices Muse Spark 1.1 at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, a deliberate break from the open Llama strategy that built the company's developer base.
Meta Superintelligence Labs, run by Alexandr Wang, released Muse Spark 1.1 alongside a public preview of the Meta Model API for developers in the United States. The model is multimodal, built for agentic tool use and computer use, and carri…
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