Meta says its latest AI model can compete with the industry’s strongest coding systems while using fewer tokens and tool calls. Independent testing suggests the efficiency story is more complicated.

The company released Muse Spark 1.3 to developers Wednesday through Muse Code and the Meta Model API, keeping pricing at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens. Meta AI, Instagram and Facebook are expected to gain access later.

Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer, called the launch the company’s “biggest jump so far on model performance.” Wang, according to Bloomberg, argued that Muse Spark 1.3 is “competitive” with…

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