Muse Spark – Meta Superintelligence Labs

What is the "BioTIER-refuse" thing mentioned in the "Bioweapons Refusal" graph?

I Googled it and found absolutely nothing.

Well, to be honest, I got 100% of websites containing the French word "boîtier" (box) with a typo.

Even on Google Scholar, the closest match is "BioTiER (Biological Training in Education and Research) Scholars Program", which is at least 10 years old and has nothing to do with that.

Is that an AI-generated image with an AI-generated name that has no physical existence?

I don't get the comments trashing this. 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. Sure, they spent a lot of money and will have on-going costs. But how much more work would it take to turn that into a coding agent people are willing to try (and pay for) along side their usage of a collection of agents (Claude, Codex, etc)? Also means Meta doesn't have to pay another company to use a SATA model across all their products (including IG and WhatsApp, vr) which will matter to their balance sheet long term (despite the constant r&d spend).

This would have been an amazing release 6 months ago. But the industry moves so fast, this is a trite release. Maybe it’s best for Meta to sell their superintelligence division. I don’t think Zuck’s vision is particularly compelling.

Ran some of my internal benchmarks against this and I'm very unimpressed. I don't think this moves them into the OAI v Anthropic v Gemini conversation at all.

Major analytical errors in their response to multiple of my technical questions.

How is that Meta spent so much money for talent and hardware, but the model barely matches Opus 4.6?

Especially, looking at these numbers after Claude Mythos, feels like either Anthropic has some secret sauce, or everyone else is dumber compared to the talent Anthropic has

We all know it... but I think they were very bold in this warning about using your private messages to train public models. _Your messages with AIs will be used to improve AI at Meta. Don't share information, including sensitive topics, about others or yourself that you don't want the AI to retain and use_

So this is why Anthropic rushed the weirdest "pre-responsible-disclosure-totally-not-for-marketing" announcement yesterday? To make sure Spark doesn't steal their thunder? (Spark beats Opus 4.6 on some benchmarks...). Or did I become a bitter cynical old man.

Question: since they've rebooted their approach to AI... have they given up on open models? There's no mention of open source or open weights or access to the models beyond their hosted services.

> Muse Spark is available today at meta.ai and the Meta AI app. We’re opening a private API preview to select users.

Will experiment with the model. But I am scared of sharing any information with the Zuck ecosystem.

so glad its beating all the others on bioweapons refusal. this is what i most wanted out of the latest SOTA model

I have to create meta account to access. No thanks.

I can remember when AOL was an unstoppable giant. Except it wasn't. People eventually realized they could get a better, cheaper, faster experience with ISPs and search engines. The same path is unfolding before Meta. People have much better options, and plethora of Meta users will slowly leave until the big moat is drained. Zuck, go retire to your NZ bunker before Meta is forced to merge with another media company.

https://meta.ai/ this is where you can try it seems like the API is not publicly accessable yet. I feel they are very late to the game and do not show value to customers over other models.

Oh good, if they built a lab, I’m sure they took the time the precisely define what they mean by super intelligence? Right? …

I'm cautiously waiting for the feedback from the first users. Meta has produced a lot of great models (LLama), maybe this is a comeback... but I'm cautious, as the jump in the quality is almost too high.

Also, I think people aren't used that using such models requires meta.ai or meta ai app.

funny how websites do that thing where it looks like you can use the product but soon as you hit enter, nope login first

How's the metaverse doing? It was the next big thing and how we're all going to be working inside it in... was it like 3 months ago?

Maybe they need to mine more libra coin first? or is it diem now? is that even still part of meta?

I'm sure this new AI is super intelligent and super awesome and will be writing all the code, making all the blog posts, and generating all our youtube shorts in 6 months.

This looks like a very interesting model and very promising, especially after llama lost so much ground recently. I hope they release the weights

So Meta is not releasing open source models anymore?

So does this confirm the end of llama?

> Meta AI isn't available yet in your country

Not my loss, will keep using DeepSeek then. Wake me up when my country is no longer in the wrong/right side of history.

earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692043

Hoping the benchmarks are correct this time...

did they just copy the chatgpt ui?

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692043

Until you actually try the model itself, assume any benchmark presented to you as being part of the marketing material of the model, as it is not independently verified and completely biased.

The same is true with any other model, unless otherwise stated.

In the next few days, we'll see who Meta has paid to promote this model on social media.

The only benchmark they show against SOTA models is in bioweapons refusal.

Edit: nvm I can't read, regular benchmarks against SOTA are there

Probably a better link: https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-msl/

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