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Meta abandons open-source AI playbook with first proprietary model from Superintelligence Labs

49% owned by Meta; Wang departed as CEO but remains on board

For three years, Meta staked its AI strategy on open-source; the Llama series became the industry's most widely used open-weight model family. That ended April 8, 2026: Meta released Muse Spark from its new Superintelligence Labs and kept it closed, the first product of Alexandr Wang's rebuild.

Updated Oct 15

AI agents quadruple their score on a real freelance-work benchmark

New Capabilities

As of July 2026: Partner that runs the human grading

Eight months ago, the best AI agent could finish 2.5% of real freelance jobs well enough for a paying client to accept. On July 6, the Center for AI Safety reported that a new model now clears 16.1%.

Updated Jul 9