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Morning Edition · Monday, October 5, 2026Published at 2:00 AM EDT · New York
Meta sells its closed-weight Muse Spark 1.3 at $1.25 and $4.25 per million tokens through an OpenAI-compatible API
Meta prices its fourth Muse Spark release in five months below the new $2 and $10 tier from Anthropic and OpenAI. The model's weights stay closed, and it offers a 1-million-token context.
Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), Meta's AI research unit, now sells its language models through a metered API. Its prices sit below the tier Anthropic and OpenAI set last week. Meta opened the Meta Model API in public preview with Muse Sp…
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