Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Quick Answer
Meta's Superintelligence Lab has launched its first frontier models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, achieving benchmark scores comparable to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra.
Quick Take
Priced at $4.00 per million input tokens, these models emphasize 'active memory' for improved user information retention and will power the Muse agent.
Key Points
- Muse Wonder and Wonder Full are Meta's first frontier models, focusing on advanced capabilities.
- Both models achieve benchmark scores similar to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra.
- Wonder costs $4.00 per million input tokens and $20.00 per million output tokens.
- Wonder Full is exclusive to Muse Code subscribers and not available via API.
- The models emphasize 'active memory' for better information retention over time.
DeepSignal Analysis
What happened
Meta's Superintelligence Lab has introduced its first frontier models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. These models are designed to outperform previous iterations, achieving benchmark scores similar to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra, and emphasize 'active memory' for better information retention.
Key evidence
- Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full are Meta's first frontier models, launched by the Superintelligence Lab, and are larger and more capable than the previous Muse Spark model.
- The models achieve benchmark scores comparable to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra, indicating significant advancements in performance for complex tasks.
- Muse Wonder is priced at $4.00 per million input tokens and $20.00 per million output tokens, aligning its cost with other leading models like GPT-6 Sol.
Why it matters
The introduction of Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full marks a significant step in Meta's AI development, particularly in the realm of personal assistants. The focus on 'active memory' could enhance user experience by allowing models to retain information over extended periods, which may set a new standard for AI interactions.
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~2 min readMeta’s Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, representing the company’s first attempt at a frontier model.
Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.
According to Meta’s testing (presented in the model card), Wonder and Wonder Full achieve comparable benchmark scores to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra.
“Together, they mark the next step on our scaling ladder and a major leap toward personal superintelligence,” Meta’s blog post about the models reads.
That scale is reflected in the pricing: Accessed through the Meta Model API, Wonder will cost $4.00 per million input tokens and $20.00 per million output tokens, making it roughly equivalent in cost to GPT-6 Sol or Opus 5.5.
Notably, Wonder Full will only be available to Muse Code subscribers, and will not be served through the API. Both models will also be used to power the Muse agent.
In keeping with Meta’s interest in developing personal assistants that can perform tasks over a long period, the company placed particular emphasis on the new models’ ability to retain and synthesize information given by the user, a property Meta calls “active memory.”
To achieve better recall, Meta highlighted the MemoryBench benchmark, which challenges continual learning and memory construction frameworks. According to the company’s testing, Muse Wonder now scores higher on MemoryBench than Fable, Opus or Astra.
“We put a tremendous amount of effort into making sure your model can remember what’s important to you over days, weeks, months and beyond,” said research scientist Kavya Kopparapu in a video accompanying the launch.
The new models are the first frontier model release since Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang restructured Meta’s AI efforts in August of last year. Since then, Meta has released its lightweight Muse Spark model and Muse agent, but has avoided the kind of state-of-the-art model releases OpenAI and Anthropic are known for.
According to the post, the models were trained at Meta’s Prometheus data center in central Ohio, which came online earlier this year.
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Russell Brandom has been covering the tech industry since 2012, with a focus on platform policy and emerging technologies. He previously worked at The Verge and Rest of World, and has written for Wired, The Awl and MIT’s Technology Review. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Signal at 412-401-5489.
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