Meta Platforms presented this Wednesday Muse Spark, the first artificial intelligence model resulting from the work of a team that the company assembled last year through a costly competition for talent and a broad internal restructuring to catch up with rivals in the AI race.
America’s technology giants are under pressure to prove that their huge investments in AI will pay off. The situation is especially critical for Meta after it hired Scale AI chief executive Alex Wang last year in a $14.3 billion deal and offered some engineers salary packages worth hundreds of millions of dollars to join a new superintelligence team.
Muse Spark is the first in a new series of models from this team, which seeks machines capable of surpassing human reasoning.
Initially, it will only be available on the Meta AI app and website, which are little used, and in the coming weeks it will replace the Llama models that power chatbots on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and in Meta’s smart glasses collection.
‘This initial model is small and fast by design, but capable enough to reason about complex questions in science, math and healthcare. It’s a solid foundation, and the next generation is already in development,’ the company said in a blog post.
