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Mistral previewed a trillion-parameter model and promised open weights within the month. It has not said yet what licence those weights will carry. OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT tier at once. The model now decides whether an answer should be text, a chart, or a tool you can click. Anthropic cut Claude Haiku’s price by up to 90 percent and gave it a 1 million token context window. The cheap-model tier of the price war just got a lot more capable. Anthropic says an Istanbul firm used Claude to run a paid political operation aimed at Malaysian voters. Its report found no sign the campaign reached real communities. The White House ordered federal agencies to stop saying “AI.” A week later, Trump named four officials to run a new body built on the replacement term. Claude for Government left public beta on 30 September 2026. Anthropic is now selling Washington a spending cap, not just a chatbot. OpenAI says it will not release a flagship model it had been testing. The company that races itself on capability now says it will also lose to its own safety bar. DeepSeek shipped a new small model on a new architecture. It undercuts its own flagship on price, not just rivals. Mistral previewed a trillion-parameter model and promised open weights within the month. It has not said yet what licence those weights will carry. OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT tier at once. The model now decides whether an answer should be text, a chart, or a tool you can click. Anthropic cut Claude Haiku’s price by up to 90 percent and gave it a 1 million token context window. The cheap-model tier of the price war just got a lot more capable. Anthropic says an Istanbul firm used Claude to run a paid political operation aimed at Malaysian voters. Its report found no sign the campaign reached real communities. The White House ordered federal agencies to stop saying “AI.” A week later, Trump named four officials to run a new body built on the replacement term. Claude for Government left public beta on 30 September 2026. Anthropic is now selling Washington a spending cap, not just a chatbot. OpenAI says it will not release a flagship model it had been testing. The company that races itself on capability now says it will also lose to its own safety bar. DeepSeek shipped a new small model on a new architecture. It undercuts its own flagship on price, not just rivals.
Model prices /1M out
GPT-5.6 Luna $1.20 —
Qwen3.8-Max $6.00 —
Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 —
Claude Sonnet 5 $10.00 —
GPT-5.6 Terra $12.00 —
GPT-5.6 Sol $20.00 —
Claude Opus 5 $25.00 —
Claude Fable 5 $50.00 —
AI MODEL PROFILE

Muse Spark

Meta's replacement for the Llama line, distributed free at enormous scale and documented almost not at all.

Source review Last reviewed October 7, 2026 By Meta Superintelligence Labs

The facts at a glance

ProviderMeta Superintelligence Labs
TypeConsumer assistant model
Current version or tierMuse Spark, released 8 April 2026 and updated through 12 May 2026
ModalityText, image, and voice
AccessProprietary
Context or limitsContext window not disclosed
Free optionYes, through the Meta AI app, meta.ai, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Meta AI glasses
Paid priceAPI pricing not published. API access is a private preview for selected partners

Pricing last checked October 7, 2026. Prices change and vary by region. Check the official pricing page ↗

Assessment

What it does well

  • Free and already installed for most people through WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook
  • Positioned as small and fast by design rather than competing on raw capability
  • Can see and reason about what the user is looking at through Meta AI glasses

Where it falls short

  • Meta published no benchmark scores with the announcement
  • The context window is not disclosed
  • Closed, with only a stated hope to open source future versions, which is a notable retreat from the Llama era
  • No general API access

Privacy and data control

Meta's consumer AI data handling is governed by its own terms across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook. We have not verified the training opt out position for this profile and would not recommend it for confidential material.

The longer read

The end of the Llama era

Meta Superintelligence Labs replaced the Llama family with the Muse line, and llama.com now redirects to Meta’s developer site. Llama 5 was never released. For anyone whose open weight strategy was built on Llama, that is a strategic problem rather than a naming change, and DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Moonshot are now where the open weight momentum sits.

How this profile was produced

Source review. Every fact here is drawn from the provider documentation linked below and checked on the date shown. We have not yet run this entry through a controlled test, and no scoring is implied.

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