Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 — Its First Paid AI Model With Agentic Capabilities and 1M Context

What happened

Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9, 2026 — the second Muse Spark model and the first for which Meta charges businesses via the new Meta Model API in public preview.

Context and impact

This marks the first time Meta has charged for AI model access, officially becoming a commercial AI provider alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Signals Alexandr Wang and Superintelligence Labs accelerating toward frontier competition.

Details

• Released July 9, 2026 (second Muse Spark model)
• 1M token context window
• Supports text, image, video, PDF, audio input
• Computer use: desktop, browser, mobile
• API pricing: $1.25/M input tokens, $4.25/M output tokens
• $20 free credits on signup
• Free consumer access at meta.ai
• Closed-weight, unlike the Llama family
• Positioned against GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro