Meta's $14 Billion AI Gamble: Muse Spark Is Here, But Can It Compete?
Mark Zuckerberg spent $14.3 billion to hire the guy who trained everyone else’s AI. Now we get to see if it was worth it. Meta dropped Muse Spark this week — the first model from Superintelligence Labs, led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang. It’s proprietary. It’s consumer-focused. And it represents the most dramatic strategic pivot in Meta’s AI history: the company that championed open-source AI just went closed. ...