Meta drops Muse Spark model, eyes AGI

Meta is trading its open-source "Llama" brand for a closed-source AGI play, betting that specialized "Contemplating" reasoning modes can bridge the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic.

• –The hire of Alexandr Wang and the creation of MSL signal a complete culture shift toward a more aggressive, Scale AI-driven data curation strategy
• –The "Contemplating" mode suggests a move toward agentic architectures that can orchestrate multiple parallel sub-tasks rather than just predicting the next token
• –Native multimodality targeting smart glasses and the $135B infrastructure spend indicate Meta is building for a post-smartphone wearable AI ecosystem
• –Reverting to closed-source weights secures short-term competitive advantage but risks losing the developer mindshare that made Llama an industry standard