Meta unveiled its latest artificial intelligence model on Wednesday, the first since building an expensive team to help the company better compete with AI rivals.
The new model, known as Muse Spark, was created by Meta Superintelligence Labs, a team of expensive AI executives and developers assembled last year from other AI companies and led by Alexandr Wang, co-founder and CEO of Scale AI. Wang joined the Meta AI team after Meta agreed to make a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI.
The model, known internally as Avacodo, now powers the Meta AI app and Meta AI website and will soon power the Meta WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and AI glasses apps. Meta called the new model “an early data point on our trajectory,” adding that it has larger models in development.
“This initial model is small and fast by design, but capable enough to reason about complex questions in science, math, and health,” Meta said in its announcement. “It’s a powerful foundation and the next generation is already in development.”
Meta has invested increasingly large sums to compete in the ever-changing AI landscape, creating a “superintelligence team” that works to realize artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The release of Muse Spark comes after the company’s disappointing release of Llama models last year.
Meta has bet big on AI to catch up and keep pace with other AI builders. Google beat out its competitors in November with its Gemini 3 model, demonstrating its impressive coding and search capabilities. OpenAI was quick to follow with updates to GPT-5.
