Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3, claims frontier performance at low cost
Muse Spark 1.3 uses ~20% fewer tool calls and ~25% fewer tokens than Muse Spark 1.2, with a 1M token context window. Priced at $0.2 per 1M output tokens, it scores 62 on Artificial Analysis, edging Gemini 3.8 Flash's 59.
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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
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