Andrew Ng's The Batch: Meta's Muse Spark Open is the strongest open-weights model outside China
DeepLearningAI · x · 2026-10-29
DeepLearning.AI's The Batch highlights Meta's return to open weights with Muse Spark Open — now the strongest open-weights model from outside China, accepting text, images, video, and audio as input, and runnable on just two high-memory desktops. The accompanying leaderboard shows the Muse family (Wonder Full at 56, Muse Spark 1.3 at 48, etc.) trailing Claude Opus 5.5 (58) in a tiered chase of the closed frontier.
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