Meta released a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, claiming that the AI model surpasses the capabilities of prior products from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Dubbed Muse Spark 1.1, the new model is proficient across a range of tasks, including coding, video captioning, and reasoning, Meta said in a blog post. The update to Muse Spark beats out Google’s latest release of Gemini in benchmarks measuring coding and reasoning capabilities, according to the tech giant. And Meta’s new AI entry surpasses older versions of OpenAI and Anthropic’s models on some verticals, the company said.
“Our focus is on delivering strong agentic and multimodal models at very low cost,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s cofounder and CEO, in a post on X. “More to come soon.”
The tech giant did not say how its new AI product compares to OpenAI and Anthropic’s most recent model releases. On one coding metric, for example, the model still lags behind the flagship entries—Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5, and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6—according to a leaderboard ranking performances on an open-source benchmark.
In the past, the company has also confronted accusations that it manipulated results on tests for a prior AI model release. “We’ve also heard claims that we trained on test sets—that’s simply not true and we would never do that,” a former Meta AI executive said on X in response to allegations in April 2025.
