Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs
Artificial Analysis
Context & Ripple Effects
Meta introduced Muse Spark through Meta Superintelligence Labs as a model for Meta AI, including shopping-related queries, and said it intended to release a version under an open-source license. Its later agentic Meta AI update extended the model family into Gmail- and Google Calendar-connected tasks.
The 1.2 score gives that product rollout an independent ranking marker: Meta now shares third place among US labs with SpaceXAI, rather than asking users and developers to assess its model solely through product claims.
First-order effects
Meta gains a 54-point Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index result and a tie with SpaceXAI for third among US labs, strengthening the competitive positioning of Muse Spark 1.2.
The planned open-source Muse Spark release gains a more concrete performance reference for developers evaluating whether to adopt Meta's model family.
SpaceXAI now shares its third-place US-lab position with Meta, making subsequent benchmark updates a visible measure of separation between the two labs.
Third-order effects
If Meta continues pairing competitive benchmark results with deployment across Meta AI and connected-agent features, model competition will increasingly turn on both measured capability and distribution into existing consumer products.
The trend: Frontier AI labs are using independent benchmark standing to reinforce model launches that are already embedded in large product surfaces and developer ecosystems.
I've seen a lot of people grumbling about muse spark 1.2 contributor slurping up your coding data, but didn't we all just go through that happily with Cursor -> grok 4.5 Seems odd to complain now (not that they're necessarily wrong, I guess).
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Muse Spark 1.2 just cracked the top 5 on the Vals Index, at just $0.69 per test. This is 3x cheaper than Kimi and 10x or more cheaper than Fable, Opus, and 5.6 Sol. [image]
Tactical Game Theory: Meta Scorched Earth This should have been Meta's play two years ago. That said, they are in an even better position to do it now considering the power and compute constraints that are emerging.
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.2. It's their third release in four months and scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, significantly improving agentic knowledge work capabilities over prior releases and putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place among…
muse spark 1.2 look incredible - more to share soon once i played with it more but i want to highlight one thing first - this table basically tells you how valuable our usage data is. same reason why anthropic and openai have been subsidizing their customer subscriptions it's ve…
Compared to Muse Spark 1.1, v1.2 improved 3.5 points overall (71.9 vs 68.4), led by a 10 pp gain on VibeCodeBench. That's where the price gap is starkest: $1.49 per test vs $41.74 for Claude Fable 5, roughly 28x cheaper and 3x faster for 10.6 pp lower accuracy.
We tried using Meta's new Muse Code agent, but it has a bug that doesn't let it sign in from a docker container. So we did a fun experiment: Meta claims Muse Spark 1.2 was co-trained with their Muse agent harness. So we extracted instructions from their system prompt and added …