Welcome to the Tech Brewerite Home for Thursday, April 9th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today.

META releases its first model in the great AI horse race, catch-up race. OpenAI is expecting to make

as much money from ads as the biggest social media companies. Meta doesn't want you to see

ads encouraging you to join lawsuits against

them. And Amazon's big Starlink competitor is coming as soon as this summer. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech. Well, they're trying to stay in the race here. Meta has

released Muse Spark, the first model from

Meta Superintelligence Labs under the direction of Alexander Wang, to quote, power a smarter

and faster meta AI across all of Meta's products, quoting the FTE. Mark Zuckerberg signaled

earlier this year that the release of these initial AI models would not yet match the most advanced systems from rivals.

But the company said Muse Spark would power a smarter and faster version of meta-a-I, its virtual assistant.

It added that the model would enable more personalized and visual responses drawing on content shared across Instagram, Facebook, and threads.

Expect richer, more visual results with

reels, photos, and posts woven directly into your answers with credit back to the content

creators, Meta said. Meta's shares were up 8% on Wednesday following news of the model

amid a broader market rally. It also said its new model had strong applications in health care.

Meta said it had worked with more than a thousand doctors to train the model to generate more detailed responses on topics such as nutrition and exercise.

Using the model, Meta AI will also offer a shopping mode to help users compare prices.

Unlike Meta's previous Lama models, which have been open or freely available for developers to tweak,

Muse Spark is a smaller closed model.

The company intends to offer a private preview to select partners.

Meta said it hoped to open source future versions.

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