The new model is competitive with rival AI models, according to data from Meta, but won’t be widely available outside Meta’s own product ecosystem.

Meta has launched its first AI model since chief executive Mark Zuckerberg led a multibillion-dollar spending spree on talent and infrastructure, in the first test of its efforts to catch up with rivals including OpenAI and Google.

This is the first model Meta has released under its Superintelligence Labs, led by former ScaleAI CEO Alexandr Wang.

Meta reports that Muse Spark achieves its reasoning capabilities using over an order of magnitude less compute than Llama 4 Maverick, its previous mid-size flagship.

Meta announces its new AI Model, "Muse Spark." The first in a series of new large language models. CNBC’s Julia Boorstin joins ‘Halftime Report’ to discuss the latest news from the social media giant.

Meta on Wednesday debuted Muse Spark, a homegrown AI model it says significantly narrows the performance gap with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others. Why it matters: The model — code-named Avocado and built over the past nine months by a team led by Alexandr Wang — is a major upgrade over its Llama 4 models,