Meta announced its new AI model, Muse Spark, on Wednesday, positioning it as a major step toward CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of “personal superintelligence.” For now, the model will remain closed source, with access available via meta.ai and the Meta AI app.
The release follows Zuckerberg’s AI reboot last year under a new unit called Meta Intelligence Labs. Zuckerberg said Meta wants AI products that “don’t just answer your questions but act as agents that do things for you,” adding that he is “optimistic” the effort will support “creativity, entrepreneurship, growth, and health.”
Meta says Muse Spark is a significant upgrade over its previous major release, Llama 4, which the tech industry viewed as a disappointment. The company also claims its self-reported benchmarks show Muse Spark performing better on some tasks than the latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI.
Artificial Analysis, which received early access to Muse Spark, said the model scored 52 on its Intelligence Index, placing it “within the top 5 models we have benchmarked” based on its rubric combining multiple benchmarks.
Meta describes Muse Spark as natively multimodal—trained to handle images, audio, video, and text. The company also says the model has advanced reasoning capabilities and was built from scratch to deliver strong coding performance.
Health is a major focus. Meta says it built Muse Spark to be “especially good at providing medical advice,” collaborating with over 1,000 physicians to curate training data intended to improve medical responses.
Meta said it hopes to open-source future versions, while this first release remains closed. The company also published an “Advanced AI Scaling Framework” outlining safety checks it plans to use as models scale toward superhuman levels of performance.
Source: Business Latest