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Meta is a US technology company that operates Facebook and Instagram. It has released the open Llama family of AI models and continues to develop its own AI models and products.
Meta launched Muse in the US on September 8, 2026, a personal AI agent that operates email, payments, and a browser on a user's behalf. A technical post published the same day discloses the design: a separate agent called Sentinel holds sole permission authority on a dedicated VM, and the agent never sees real credentials. The bug bounty pays up to $300,000.
The Contributor tier we covered in August now also lists the latest muse-spark-1.3, while its per-token prices and rate limits are unchanged. A second look at the gap against standard pricing, the Standard tier's explicit "not used to train" line, and the drop in rate limits.
Guidelight AI Standards scored Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI on six control practices on August 18, 2026. Based on public information only, no company exceeded 3 on a 0–5 scale for any practice. On containment plans, OpenAI scored 3 while Anthropic and Meta scored 0.
Meta released Muse Code in beta on August 5, 2026, a terminal coding agent running on the new Muse Spark 1.2 model. Persistent async background agents, a crash-safe event log, and a Contributor tier at $0.10/$0.20 per million tokens in exchange for training rights.
Q2 2026 earnings locked in Big Tech's AI infrastructure spending: Alphabet raised 2026 capex guidance to $195-205B, Amazon lifted its plan to about $220B, Meta guides $130-145B, and Microsoft's fiscal 2026 spend was reportedly $115.95B. A breakdown of the numbers, the funding behind them, and the Anthropic gains flowing back.
The US Department of Energy announced the first 278 projects under the Genesis Mission, its national AI-for-science initiative. Google commits $40M in AI tokens, Meta deploys SAM 3 and DINOv3 at national labs, with nuclear, critical minerals, chip design, and fusion in scope
Meta removed Muse Image's @-mention feature on July 10, 2026, which let anyone generate AI images referencing public Instagram accounts. The opt-out design - covering all public accounts of users 18+ by default - drew backlash from users, creators, SAG-AFTRA, and CAA.
Meta Superintelligence Labs announced Muse Spark 1.1, an agentic coding model, on July 9, 2026, and opened the Meta Model API in public preview. It offers a 1-million-token context window through an OpenAI-compatible API, reportedly priced at $1.25 input / $4.25 output per million tokens, chasing Anthropic and OpenAI.
Meta announced Muse Image on July 7, 2026, the first media generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. It works agentically — writing code and searching the web while it creates — and is available in the Meta AI app and Instagram Stories in the US. Muse Video enters early preview with native audio.
Meta acquires Limitless, maker of the AI conversation recording device Limitless Pendant. Hardware sales end immediately, existing users get one year of support. Service discontinued in EU and other regions.
Key members of Meta's Llama project are leaving en masse to establish new AI startups. This could significantly impact Meta's internal AI development structure and strategy.