Muse Spark is the first model to come out of Meta Superintelligence Labs, which was established last year after CEO Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly dissatisfied with Meta’s progress and its Llama models, as well as their lag behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Meta recruited former Scale AI co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs and invested $14.3 billion in the data-labeling company to acquire a 49% stake.

Muse Spark, now available on the web and in the Meta AI app, is expected to improve over time. “Muse Spark is a native multimodal reasoning model that supports tool use, visual chains of thought and multi-agent orchestration.

Muse Spark is the first step in our scaling roadmap and the first product of a complete restructuring of our artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. To support further expansion, we are making strategic investments across the entire system — from research and model training to infrastructure, including the Hyperion data center,” Meta said.

Meta’s competitors have previously often sold these more powerful models as paid software. It is still unclear whether Meta will adopt a similar strategy.

However, the company has captured a trend in the artificial intelligence industry. Meta said Muse Spark can be used to help users answer health-related questions, an area that its competitors are also exploring.

To improve Muse Spark’s health reasoning capabilities, Meta said it worked with more than 1,000 doctors to curate training data, enabling more accurate and comprehensive responses. Muse Spark can generate interactive displays that analyze and explain health information, such as the nutritional content of different foods or the muscle groups activated during a workout.

According to Meta, Muse Spark performs especially well with visual STEM questions and can lead to “interactive experiences such as creating fun mini-games or troubleshooting your household appliances with dynamic annotations.”

In addition to its investment in Scale AI and the recruitment of Wang, Zuckerberg’s company has hired researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. This confirms Meta’s ambitions in the AI industry.

“Looking ahead, we plan to release increasingly advanced models that push the boundaries of intelligence and capability, including new open-source models. We are building products that not only answer your questions but also act as assistants that get things done for you,” Zuckerberg said.