Meta has launched a new sequence of AI models, Muse Wonder, that it says has caught up to labs akin Anthropic and OpenAI.
"Muse Wonder is a much larger and additional advanced category of models that brings us to the frontier," CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X on Monday.
It’s the latest sign that Meta’s big bet on AI — which has raised questions from investors — is paying off following the initiate of its personal AI assistant, Muse. Meta is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI, prompting several capitalist doubts before this year.
The Wonder sequence comes in two versions: Muse Wonder, a smaller, accelerated example Meta expects group to use for regular work, and Wonder Full, a larger and additional capable version, the business stated in a statement.
Meta built its new AI models to complete complex multi-step tasks, specified as disputing an coverage claim. To grip that, the AIs have features specified as recollection and the capability to try substitute approaches.
The Muse Wonder sequence was internally codenamed Watermelon, according to a individual acquainted alongside the matter.
In July, Business Insider reported that Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang had told personnel that Watermelon had caught up to OpenAI.
"Watermelon uses an command of dimension additional compute than Avocado," he stated at the time, referring to Meta's codename for Muse Spark, a previous family of models.
In the lead-up to Muse Wonder's launch, Zuckerberg and another Meta workforce teased the publish alongside watermelon-themed posts:
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