The entrance to Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

Meta releases Muse Wonder, its first frontier AI model

API pricing is $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens; a larger Full version is limited to subscribers.

The entrance to Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

By West Coast News staff

Oct 12, 2026, 10:56 am PT · 1 min read

Meta's Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Monday, the company's first attempt at a frontier model, TechCrunch reports.

Meta says the models score comparably to leading rivals on benchmarks and emphasises what it calls active memory, the ability to retain information a user provides over time.

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Muse Wonder is available through the Meta Model API, while Wonder Full is only for Muse Code subscribers. The models were trained at Meta's Prometheus data centre in Ohio.

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