Meta closes in on the top with Muse Spark 1.3, and undercuts rivals on price

- Muse Spark: 3 events in the last 90 days
- Previous: earlier the same day · Meta says it has caught up with Anthropic and OpenAI with Muse Spark 1.3, its most powerful AI model yet
What happened
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic benchmarks but still trails Claude Fable 5.1 and other top models. The strongest argument is price. At $0.55 per task, Muse Spark undercuts every comparably scored rival.
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