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Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1, claims it outperforms Gemini on several agentic AI, coding, and multimodal benchmarks
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Zuckerberg described the model as having “state-of-the-art or very close to it” agentic reasoning and tool use.
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He said that Muse Spark 1.1 performed better than Google’s Gemini model in several areas related to agents, coding and multimodal capabilities.
“That is a pretty interesting milestone because I think this may be the first time, at least that I can remember, that Meta’s models are better than all of the Google models,” Zuckerberg said ahead of the release.
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Zuckerberg said they are still trailing some of the larger AI labs, including Anthropic and OpenAI but believes the upcoming Watermelon model will “push this maximum frontier of intelligence.”
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He declined to say when Watermelon will arrive, saying that the focus is on quality.
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Muse Spark 1.1 is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, making it more expensive than OpenAI’s GPT-5 mini and Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5, but cheaper than Anthropic’s premium Claude Sonnet 4.6.
Assessment
Some third-party tests already confirm Zuckerberg’s argument that it outperform’s Gemini and is leading on a number of areas (Notion).