Development
A social network's first paid model puts five labs back in the race
Claim
Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid model, at a quarter of rivals' prices, leading in agentic tool use and taking legal-agent state of the art, as Zuckerberg declared war on very extreme margins and analysts projected Meta out-computing OpenAI plus Anthropic by December.
Reported metric: 1/4 the price
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