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Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 29, 2026Published at 2:12 AM EDT · New York
Meta Opens a Paid Frontier API With Muse Spark and Drop-In OpenAI SDK Compatibility
The Meta Model API is self-serve with no waitlist, ships $20 of free credits, and accepts existing OpenAI client code pointed at a new endpoint.
Meta has put a frontier model behind a metered, paid developer API for the first time. Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic work, with a million-token context window and gains the company claims in tool use, comp…
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