Meta Launches Muse Spark AI–Its AI Bid Against OpenAI, Google

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🗓️ 10 April 2026

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Meta released Muse Spark, previously named Avocado, on Wednesday, the much-anticipated—and delayed—first large language mode under AI chief Alexandr Wang, sending Meta shares soaring as the company seeks to catch up to industry AI giants OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. KEY FACTS The AI model is available on Meta’s AI website and its app, with the company claiming it can carry out the same actions as its previous model, Llama 4 Maverick, with less computing power. Muse Spark is Meta’s first AI model under Wang, a billionaire tech entrepreneur who Meta brought on as its chief AI officer after investing $14.3 billion into his company, Scale AI. Meta shares jumped as high as 9% on Wednesday following the announcement, erasing a string of losses recorded in late March. The release of Muse Spark comes after a delay reportedly caused after the AI model failed to outperform rival models developed by Google, OpenAI and Anthropic in benchmark tests. A comparison table in Meta’s announcement claims Muse Spark can compete with or outperform rival AI models in various benchmarks. BIG NUMBER $135 billion. That is how much money Meta expects to spend on AI this year, nearly double what it spent in 2025. FORBES VALUATION We estimate Wang’s net worth at $3.2 billion. The entrepreneur was the world’s youngest self-made billionaire until October 2025, when Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan took over the title. TANGENT Meta is in the thick of litigation accusing it of designing addictive apps harmful to children and was recently ordered to pay $375 million in damages after a New Mexico jury ruled that the company enabled child exploitation on its platforms. A California jury also found Meta liable in a landmark social media addiction case, forcing the company to pay $3 million in damages to a woman who accused it of intentionally designing its apps to be addictive to children. Read the full story on By Antonio Pequeño IV Forbes:https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/04/08/meta-shares-spike-after-tech-giant-launches-muse-spark-its-ai-bid-against-openai-google/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Meta released Muse Spark, previously named Avocato, on Wednesday, the much-anticipated
0:07.0	and delayed first large language model under AI Chief Alexander Wang, sending Meta shares
0:13.3	soaring as the company seeks to catch up to industry AI giants, OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
0:20.2	The AI model is available on Meta's AI website and its app, with a company claiming
0:25.2	it can carry out the same actions as its previous model, Lama 4 Maverick, with less computing
0:30.9	power.
0:31.9	Muse Spark is Meta's first AI model under Wang, a billionaire tech entrepreneur who met a bought on as its chief
0:39.2	AI officer after investing $14.3 billion into his company, Scale AI.
0:45.7	Metashares jumped as high as 9% on Wednesday following the announcement, erasing a string
0:50.6	of losses recorded in late March.
0:53.0	The release of MewS Spark comes after a delay
0:55.6	reportedly caused after the AI model failed to outperform rival models developed by Google,
1:02.0	OpenAI, ananthropic, and benchmark test. A comparison table in META's announcement claims
1:08.1	MewS Spark can compete with or outperform rival AI models in various
1:12.5	benchmarks. Meta expects to spend $135 billion on AI this year, nearly double what it spent in
1:20.2	2025. Meta has run into obstacles amid the AI race, with its Lama 4 model underperforming following its release in 2025.
1:30.1	The company began sinking more money into artificial intelligence when it acquired a 49%
1:36.0	non-voting stake in Wang's scale AI for about $14 billion last summer, adding the billionaire
1:42.8	to its superintelligence labs team.
1:45.8	Meta announced months later it would commit $600 billion into AI infrastructure in the U.S.
1:51.3	through 2028.
1:53.2	Layoffs were also made last year, according to Bloomberg, with meta shedding hundreds of jobs
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