- Muse Wonder will soon power the Muse personal AI agent, initially for subscribers, per Meta
- More powerful Muse Wonder Full arrives first via Muse Code, Meta's AI coding tool
- Meta says Wonder performs competitively against OpenAI and Anthropic on selected benchmarks for coding and complex reasoning
- Meta's shares rose about 4% in afternoon trading on the announcement
- Two headline capabilities: Active Memory carries relevant context across conversations spanning days or weeks
- Active Focus keeps the model working through difficult multi-step tasks, trying alternatives instead of stalling
- Muse Wonder hits the Meta Model API and Muse Code; Wonder Full is subscriber-only at launch, not on the API
- Reported API pricing for Wonder: $4 input / $20 output per 1M tokens (not officially confirmed); consumer plans $20 or $100/month, Muse Code $50 or $200/month
- Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta AI, says the system (internally nicknamed Watermelon) is trained to try different tactics when real-world chores hit snags
- Meta says Wonder offers its "strongest safeguards to date" against cyber misuse — but those protections are only in the paid model
- Meta says its AI team is tracking agent-related "incidents or issues" with Muse, including disputed claims that the agent accessed private messages
- Wang says Meta is educating users on permission settings "to ensure that consumers can trust the product going forward"
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