When Mark Zuckerberg rebooted his company’s artificial intelligence efforts last year, it seemed to be a very expensive gamble. Meta’s latest AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, seem to show that the bet is finally paying off by putting the company back at the frontier of AI development.
\n\nMuse Wonder Full boasts frontier capabilities, Meta says, meaning that it is among the most capable AI models in the world. “Together, they mark the next step on our scaling ladder and a major leap toward personal superintelligence,” the company said in a blog post today.
\n\nThe Muse Wonder models will be available though an API and through Muse Code, a tool for writing software with AI. Meta says the best version of the model will power features across its platforms, including its Muse personal agent.
\n\nZuckerberg overhauled his company’s AI research last year by sinking billions into the recently formed Meta Superintelligence Labs, and hiring the former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang to lead it. This effort has sometimes been rocky, with some researchers not sticking around for long.
\n\nMeta was once a trailblazer in AI. Its Llama series of models were the first frontier open-weight offerings from a…
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