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Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 8, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
Meta Sells Frontier Model Access Through Its Own API at a Fraction of Anthropic's Rate
Muse Spark 1.1 carries a one-million-token context window and lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens on the Meta Model API.
Meta has moved from releasing open weights to selling metered access. Muse Spark 1.1 launched on 9 July alongside a public preview of the Meta Model API, putting Meta Superintelligence Labs into the same paid-access business as OpenAI and A…
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