Meta released Muse Spark, a proprietary AI model from its Superintelligence team, marking a strategic reversal from CEO Mark Zuckerberg's earlier advocacy for open-source AI. The model is closed-weight with access limited to API and Meta's portal, contradicting his 2024 manifesto "Open Source AI is the Path Forward."
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Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school
Meta pivots to proprietary AI with Muse Spark, abandoning its public open-source commitments just two years after Zuckerberg's openness manifesto.
Thursday, April 9, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The RegisterBY sys://pipeline
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