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So long, Llama: Meta unveils Muse Spark AI with Contemplating mode

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Why This Matters

Meta's launch of Muse Spark marks a significant advancement in AI, offering competitive multimodal and reasoning capabilities that challenge leading models like GPT-5 and Gemini. Its new Contemplating mode enhances complex reasoning tasks, signaling Meta's commitment to pushing AI performance boundaries and expanding its application scope, particularly in health and scientific fields. This development underscores the ongoing race among tech giants to deliver more powerful, versatile AI tools for consumers and industry use alike.

Key Takeaways

Llama is out; Muse Spark is in. Meta has unveiled its rebooted AI efforts with a new model it calls Muse Spark.

Unlike Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview announcement yesterday, Muse Spark is actually available publicly today.

Meta is also taking on the top Gemini and ChatGPT models with a new Contemplating mode that it says will roll out gradually.

Muse Spark replaces Llama models

Last year, Meta retooled its AI efforts under the leadership of Alexandr Wang with a new team called Meta Superintelligence Labs. Today, Meta is releasing Muse Spark, which it calls “the first step on our scaling ladder” as the team builds a family of Muse models.

“Muse Spark offers competitive performance in multimodal perception, reasoning, health, and agentic tasks,” Meta says. “We continue to invest in areas with current performance gaps, such as long-horizon agentic systems and coding workflows.”

As part of the announcement, Meta shows how Muse Spark Thinking benchmarks favorably next to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 Max, Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro High, OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Xhigh, and xAI’s Grok 4.2 Reasoning models.

Muse Spark is available starting today in Meta AI apps.

Contemplating mode is coming

Muse Spark Thinking is just one mode. Muse Spark Contemplating mode will compete with Gemini 3.1 Deep Think and GPT-5.4 Pro.

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