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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 13, 2026Published at 2:28 AM EDT · New York
Meta Puts Muse Spark 1.1 Behind a Metered API and Undercuts Anthropic on Input Tokens
The agentic multimodal model carries a one-million-token context window and lists at $1.25 per million input tokens against $10 for Claude Fable 5.1, with Meta charging developers directly for the first time.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 is the second model from Meta Superintelligence Labs and the first Meta model sold through a metered application programming interface (API). It is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic work, with a one-millio…
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