Meta’s Muse models reach the AI frontier—and kill any hopes to ‘pace’ it
Source: Fortune ·
In game theory, coordinated efforts are doomed to fail if one party doesn't comply, and Zuckerberg is an AI accelerationist. But was the idea to 'pace the frontier' ever realistic?
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It looks like Meta’s big AI turnaround is starting to pay off, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is showing no signs of slowing down, despite calls from OpenAI, Anthropic and others arguing that the entire industry should do so. Meta has reached the “frontier” with the two new models it released this week, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, Zuckerberg told the Financial Times in an interview. They build on momentum from last month’s release of Muse, Meta’s personal AI assistant, which rocketed to the top of the Apple App Store, and compelled OpenAI to unveil a rival product, Dots. Meta’s self-published model benchmarks show its Muse models out-performing other frontier models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-6 and Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1, in key areas such as coding and memory. Two independent AI analysis companies also praised its performance. One firm, Artificial Analysis, called the models “a material jump in intelligence over previous Meta models,” and another, Vals, found that the Wonder model…