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Meta priced Muse Ember at $0.10 and $0.50 per million tokens on November 9, with a surcharge after 200,000 tokens and a split between external and internal scores.
Claude Fable 5.1 leads a three-lab drop with Gemini 3.8 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3. GPT-6 got the headlines. Here is what the other releases actually change.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 and Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 arrived within weeks of each other. What each vendor announced, official pricing, availability, and the GhostApproval security disclosure, with sources.
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7 — its first in-house AI image generator. One feature let anyone generate AI images by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts, with users automatically opted in and no notification. Within 48 hours, SAG-AFTRA, CAA, and thousands of users forced Meta to kill the feature. Here's why it matters for the future of AI and consent.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launches Muse Image, its first in-house AI image generator. Free, integrated across Instagram and WhatsApp, and built to reason through prompts — but the way it taps into public Instagram photos has raised eyebrows.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that AI agent development hasn't progressed as expected — after cutting 8,000 jobs and spending up to $145 billion. The admission exposes a deeper paradox: tech companies have laid off 165,000 workers in 2026 while pouring $700 billion into AI infrastructure.
WIRED found dormant face-recognition code, called NameTag, in the Meta AI companion app for its smart glasses; Meta removed it a day later. What the code did, Meta's response, and the privacy questions for AI wearables.