Meta Superintelligence Labs shipped an upgrade to its proprietary model with major gains in coding, computer use, and multimodal reasoning — a 1M-token context window and parallel sub-agents — priced at $1.25 per million input and $4.25 per million output tokens.
2026-07-11 · by Moe Ameen
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9, 2026, an upgrade to the proprietary model its Superintelligence Labs (led by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang) first shipped in April 2026. Version 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic work, with major gains in tool use, computer use, coding, and multimodal understanding. It is Meta's formal entry into the crowded agentic-coding race against Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT models — a market Anthropic and OpenAI reached first.
The model is built for long-running tasks rather than one-shot chat. It carries a 1 million-token context window with active context management, can operate as a main agent or a sub-agent and delegate across parallel sub-agents, and does computer use — working across multiple applications while holding context through an extended session. On coding, Meta highlights diagnosing and fixing complex bugs, implementing features in enterprise-grade systems, and running large code migrations. Its multimodal side reads images, video, and PDFs, with stated strengths in visual-to-code generation and detailed image and video captioning.
Alongside the model, Meta opened a Meta Model API in public preview so developers can build on Muse Spark 1.1 directly, and made the model available through Thinking mode in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai. API pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens — aggressive pricing near lighter tiers like Claude Haiku 4.5, even as Meta pitches the model as a frontier competitor to GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Gemini 3.1 Pro — with free starter credits for new API accounts. Treat the exact benchmarks, preview status, and pricing as launch-window details and confirm them on Meta's own pages.
The headline for a developer is "Meta has an agentic-coding model now." The headline for a creator is quieter: the cost of raw drafting just dropped again, and the real leverage is no longer in owning the smartest model — it's in the engine that turns any model's output into finished, on-brand, published content. Muse Spark 1.1 will happily draft a script or caption a video in Thinking mode, but it stops at a block of text. You still need something to render that script as a talking-head video, size the caption for six platforms, and post it. That layer is Kompozy, and you don't have to touch the Meta Model API to benefit: Kompozy already runs on Claude and OpenAI under the hood, so the same model-quality gains this launch is pressuring the whole market toward show up in your finished posts without any integration work on your side.
Concretely: draft an idea anywhere — Muse Spark, Claude, a napkin — and Kompozy fans it into 25–35 outputs across five buckets. A script becomes a Persona Short or a HeyGen avatar video with a face-locked, brand-owned identity; an outline becomes a Blog Article, an Email Newsletter, a brand-exact Carousel, Quote Graphics, and native Text Posts; a long recording becomes a run of Clipped Shorts. Everything is held to one voice by your Persona Brief and banned-word filters, then scheduled and published across nine social platforms plus blog and email from a single queue with Autopilot. Model launches like this one make the words cheaper; Kompozy is where the words become a content operation.
Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, launched July 9, 2026 as an upgrade to the April 2026 original. It targets agentic coding, tool and computer use, and multimodal understanding, with a 1 million-token context window and parallel sub-agents. It runs in Thinking mode in the Meta AI app and on the new Meta Model API.
On the Meta Model API public preview, it is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, with free starter credits for new accounts — aggressive pricing near lighter tiers like Claude Haiku 4.5, though Meta positions the model as a frontier competitor to GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Gemini 3.1 Pro. Confirm current pricing on Meta's own page.
It mostly means cheaper drafting. Muse Spark 1.1 can write scripts and captions and describe media, but it returns raw text and does not render video, hold a brand voice, or publish. The practical move for creators is to use a content engine like Kompozy — which already blends Claude and OpenAI — so model gains reach your finished posts without building on the API yourself.