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The company that made open weights mainstream now competes on discounts

Meta has released the Muse Spark 1.2 model alongside a new coding agent, Muse Code, designed to automatically resume tasks following system interruptions. The company is offering a budget-friendly pricing tier at 20 cents per million output tokens, though this option mandates that users share their data for model training purposes. This move signals a shift in Meta’s strategy toward aggressive price competition rather than focusing solely on top-tier performance benchmarks.

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