Meta's Muse Spark: A $14 Billion Closed-Source Betrayal — Or the Smartest Play in AI?
Mark Zuckerberg just played his most expensive hand yet. Meta unveiled Muse Spark, the first AI model from its Superintelligence Labs — the division built on a $14.3 billion Scale AI investment and a talent raid that cost hundreds of millions in individual engineer packages. After more than a year in the wilderness following the embarrassing Llama 4 launch, Meta says it’s back. But here’s the twist nobody expected: the company that championed open-source AI just went proprietary. ...