A collection of 10 posts
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 shipped on 2 September 2026 with the same specs and price as 1.2 — plus a Contributor tier that is up to 21x cheaper because Meta trains on your prompts and completions. Full specs, benchmarks, pricing comparison and the exact documented terms.
Meta released Muse Glimmer on August 10, 2026: 30B parameters, Apache 2.0, 128K context, runs under 20GB at 4-bit. Specs, honest benchmarks and how it compares to Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4.
Five days after launching a closed paid coding agent, Meta shipped a 30B Apache-2.0 model and announced it will open-source Muse Spark 1.2. What changed, and what it means if you build on these models.
Meta's Muse Code launched August 5, 2026. A head-to-head against Claude Code on benchmarks, pricing, parallel agents, sandboxing and ecosystem — including why Meta's own numbers favour Anthropic.
Meta launched Muse Code on August 5, 2026. What it is, how to install it, what Muse Spark 1.2 costs, how the sandbox and subagents work, and whether the benchmarks hold up.
A verified setup guide for Meta's Muse Code: install, device-code auth, AGENTS.md, MCP, sandbox flags, CI runs and the errors people hit in the first 48 hours.
Meta's contributor tier is 12-21x cheaper because it trains on your code — and it's selected by a single config string. What engineering leaders should do about it.
Meta published a benchmark chart where its own model loses to Claude Opus 5 — and independent harnesses rank Muse Spark 1.2 lower still. A close read of the launch numbers.
Muse Spark is Meta's first proprietary, closed model — built by Meta Superintelligence Labs. What it is, the 1.1 paid API, benchmarks, pricing, and how it compares.
Manus AI in May 2026: the Meta $2B acquisition was blocked by China's state planner on April 27, the Desktop app's My Computer feature puts the agent on your local machine, and pricing, access, and the autonomous-agent landscape sit where they sit.