Three major AI developers released new models within days of each other this week, and all of them lead with the same pitch: lower cost per task. Lorelei Smillie and Rachel Metz report for Bloomberg that OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 and Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 all promise more output for fewer tokens, the units …
A year after Meta overhauled its AI division following the troubled Llama 4 launch, Max Kan and his co-authors write for SemiAnalysis that Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) may be closing the gap on OpenAI and Anthropic. The authors argue Meta is the only company positioned to excel at all three ingredients of frontier AI: data, …
Meta has shut down an AI image feature that let users manipulate photos of people by simply tagging their public Instagram account, just days after launching it. Corbin Bolies reports for Variety that the company faced immediate backlash over the tool’s design. The feature was part of Meta’s new Muse Image model, introduced on Tuesday. …
Meta is previewing a web-based detection tool that identifies images and videos created with its newest AI model, Muse Image. Karissa Bell reports for Engadget that the tool checks for invisible watermarks called Content Seal, which Meta says remain intact even after cropping, compressing, resizing or screenshotting an image. Content Seal marks a shift from …
Meta has launched Muse Image, the first image generation model built by its internal Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company announced in an official blog post. The tool is now integrated into Meta AI and already powers creative features on Instagram and WhatsApp, with Facebook, Messenger and advertising tools through Advantage+ creative to follow. Meta describes …
Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing them of illegally copying millions of books and articles to train the company’s Llama AI system. Todd Spangler reports for Variety. The plaintiffs include Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage. The lawsuit, filed in the …
China’s top economic planning body, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), has ordered Meta to reverse its acquisition of AI startup Manus. The deal was valued at over $2 billion when Meta completed it in late 2025. The NDRC said it would “prohibit foreign investment in Manus in accordance with laws and regulations” and …
Meta has released Muse Spark, a new proprietary artificial intelligence model built by its internal division Meta Superintelligence Labs. The model is available through the Meta AI app and website, with a private API preview for select users. Unlike Meta’s previous Llama models, Muse Spark is not open source. Muse Spark can process text and …
Meta has acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform designed for artificial intelligence agents, and will bring its founders into the company’s AI research division. The deal brings Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. The pair is expected to start on …
Meta has acquired Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup, for more than $2 billion. The deal represents one of the first major acquisitions by a U.S. tech company of a startup with Chinese roots, according to the Wall Street Journal. Manus builds general-purpose AI agents that autonomously execute complex tasks such as market research, coding, data …