Meta's Muse Spark: first flagship since the $14.3B Scale AI deal
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Meta Superintelligence Labs — the unit Alexandr Wang joined last July after Meta paid $14.3B for 49% of Scale AI — shipped Muse Spark, its first flagship under Wang's leadership. Training ran on ~400,000 H200s across new Louisiana and New Mexico data centers. Benchmarks show Muse Spark leading Llama 4 by 18 points on HumanEval-Plus with a 512K context. It launches as a paid Meta AI tier now, with an Apache-2.0 open-weight 'Muse Spark Mini' variant promised for Q3.
First concrete data point on what Meta bought with the $14.3B Scale deal. The 512K-context + open-weights-coming signal tells the market Meta is still committed to the open ecosystem it used to win Llama mindshare — a strategic divergence from OpenAI/Anthropic's closed-weight lock-in. The coding-benchmark lead over Llama 4 is credible; the 'catch Google' framing is not yet.
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