Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816B parameter open-weight model designed for coding and agentic tasks, featuring a 1 million token context window and multimodality. This release aims to compete with leading Chinese models like Zhipu AI's GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3, narrowing the performance gap between Western and Chinese open-weight models. While Muse Spark Open's performance is positioned as competitive, it has undergone additional safety training, which some observers suggest may have impacted its raw capabilities compared to earlier internal versions. AI
IMPACT This release intensifies competition in the open-weight model space, potentially accelerating adoption for agentic and coding tasks.
RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card and performance comparison. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
- GLM 5.2
- GLM 5.3
- Hugging Face
- Kimi K3
- Meta
- Mistral AI
- Mistral Large 4
- Muse Spark Open
- Zhipu AI
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