Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3, claims frontier coding at low cost
Muse Spark 1.3 is available now in Muse Code and Meta Model API, with Alexandr Wang claiming it's "better than" OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol at coding. It scores 62 on Artificial Analysis vs 59 for Gemini 3.8 Flash, and costs $0.2 per 1M output tokens vs $25 for Claude Opus 5.
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2 days · 6 reports · 26 community posts · from Sep 2
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[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for traininglatent.space
“Google was ahead only a few hours”: Muse Spark 1.3 edges out Gemini as Meta claims its biggest coding leap yetthenewstack.io
Meta says Muse Spark 1.3 has frontier performance — but its best results come from a model developers can’t broadly use yetventurebeat.com
Meta AI Released Muse Spark 1.3: An Agentic Coding Model That Uses ~20% Fewer Tool Calls and ~25% Fewer Tokens Than Muse Spark 1.2marktechpost.com
- Sep 4
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