Muse Spark

“Pretty sweet. I wonder if they can continue to distill this down so it runs smaller.”

“That they did not include DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on the list of benchmarks is a massive red flag for me.”

“1.3 was decent but not as useful as Chinese variants like glm, deepseek and mimo.”

“They did the actual work of testing and documenting deployments on several platforms.”

“Muse is great and millions of people are already getting used to having it be a part of their daily lives.”

“this is also the first time I've seen an actual lab announce they optimized for consumer hardware”

“It's a bit of “Open”-washing but reasonable to the model trainer for their investment”

“It's not open, like the Llama. There is a licensing agreement by which they allow you to use it for free on conditions.”

“this looks like something they rolled out in a hurry to take advantage of the FOMO of the uninformed”

“This model does better than Flash Next in many areas and I am sure is much stronger overall”

“The model license requires large inference providers to contact Meta separately to obtain a license to serve the model.”

“optimized to run on Mac Studio with M5 Ultra, and together they're the best way to run a powerful model on your own desktop”

“They've done considerable effort in making sure this model can run on basically every model runner”

“Despite the claims that they would release weights for Muse Spark, they haven't done that yet either.”

“This is already so good that 90% of my work has shifted away from codex to this.”

“Muse Spark 1.3 is way better than anything else out there outside of the US labs”

“perfectly capable of following my spec and then poking holes in the implementation till there are none left”

“i think the new muse contributor model is enticing too if you are not using it for private/sensitive stuff”

“it was the worst offender of this. Just spamming extra validation/inferring behaviour I didn't (not yet) want.”

“if it will be available in open weights form for self hosting, then there are good chances that it can become quite useful”

“MS1.2 wrote C code without following original source code writing style, and no descriptive info why writing such code”

“can get stuck outputting similar sounding thought summaries with no apparent progress when asked to solve bugs”

“Muse Spark Contribs is still best bang for your buck for the intelligence you get”

“I have completely migrated my high volume workflows to Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor”

“Gemini 3.1 pro or Muse Spark 1.2 or the new Claude 5 models just assume so much without making a quick check in”

“Your models aren't top-tier, this wouldn't hurt you at all at your current position in the rankings.”

“combined with almost free model (muse spark contributor) it's actually pretty good”

“there is no way meta is not training on your data regardless of your monthly invoice”

“if it actually is this close to opus, but at a third the cost, that's pretty solid”

“I don't see a reason to use something that is, at best, about as good as models that are produced by labs who don't have a reputation of cheating.”

“at least delivered something that's competitive with useful models and cheap too”

“It seems to trade blows with GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8 in performance while being cheaper than GLM 5.2.”

“Debugging and diagnosis is very tool call heavy, whether that's grepping / transforming logs, calling out to profilers/tracers”

“I tried multiple riddles, graphs and questions I know some LLMs fails at, but this one seems to do well.”

“It's looking rather low on reasoning and long-range problems with the approach described.”

“Sure it's not as good as Claude right now but for their first model in years it's certainly not bad.”

“It's a decent model if the benchmarks are to be believed, but it won't be close to Opus in usefulness for programming.”

“Now they have a 'superintellegence'? Yeah, that sounds like just the latest in a line of bullshit.”

“If it slightly beats or even matches Opus 4.6, it means Meta is capable of building a model competitive with the leading AI company.”

“A new model comparable (ish) to the Claude/Gemini/GPT flagships is a big deal for the industry”