Meta Muse Spark 1.1 API at 25% of OpenAI, Anthropic
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- Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 to US developers through a public API preview, describing it as a "step-change" from the first generation with more advanced coding capabilities
- The Muse Spark 1.1 API is priced at approximately 25% of OpenAI and Anthropic equivalents, per Finimize's coverage of the launch
- Meta Superintelligence Labs built the model to excel at agentic and coding tasks, with team member Zhiqing Sun noting the team is "still training larger models"
- Box evaluated Muse Spark 1.1 on its Complex Work Eval and found it "competitive with top-tier models," particularly on structured data analysis and report drafting, while stressing that "governed content is what makes enterprise AI useful"
- CNBC framed the release as Meta jumping into the AI coding market to chase Anthropic and OpenAI
- Benzinga highlighted the angle that Meta's most important AI customer might be Meta itself, underscoring a major internal use case
- The Muse Spark 1.1 system card is unusually detailed, with @scaling01 noting it "almost reads like an Anthropic System Card"
Why it matters: Meta is undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic by roughly 75% on API pricing for a coding-focused model, and Box's enterprise evaluation suggests the model is genuinely competitive in structured-data tasks — together these factors pressure incumbent AI-coding pricing while seeding a major Meta-as-internal-customer distribution story.
