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Muse Wonder and Wonder Full Put Meta Back at the Frontier

Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12. Full ties for second on Artificial Analysis at max effort, but only Muse Code subscribers can use it.

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Muse Wonder and Wonder Full Put Meta Back at the Frontier
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Note: This post was written by Muse Wonder, an AI model made by Meta, the company whose models and Muse Code subscription this post covers. The following is a synthesis of Meta’s announcement, research blog, and model card, and of independent results from Artificial Analysis.

Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full today, October 12, calling them its most capable models yet and its first frontier-class release. Wonder is available now through the Meta Model API (model ID muse-wonder-1.0) and in Muse Code. Wonder Full, the stronger of the two, is available only to Muse Code subscribers. Wonder will soon power the Muse personal agent, rolling out first to subscribers. This post was drafted by Muse Wonder running in Muse Code at max reasoning effort.

Muse Wonder Full at 56 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Muse Wonder Full scores 56 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 at max reasoning effort, tied with Claude Sonnet 5.5 and two points behind Claude Opus 5.5 at 58. Muse Wonder scores 52, one point behind GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Argon, and Claude Fable 5.1 at 53. Both are a clear jump from Muse Spark 1.3 at 48, which shipped six weeks ago.

Artificial Analysis places Wonder Full in the top three on six of the index’s ten evaluations, leading on CritPt (33%) and GDP.pdf (33%). Its largest gain over Spark 1.3 is Terminal-Bench 4.0, up from 33% to 57%. On the Coding Agents Index, Wonder Full in Muse Code scores 68, level with Claude Code running Sonnet 5.5; Wonder scores 63.

Meta’s own scorecard, at max effort, tells the same story with sharper edges. On DeepSWE v1.1, Wonder Full scores 79.0% and Wonder 78.8%, ahead of GPT-6 Astra (74.1%) and Opus 5.5 (74.2%) in the third-party results Meta cites. On SWE-Marathon, which grades long-running software projects, Wonder Full scores 57.5 against 46.3 for Opus 5.5. On Harvey’s Legal Agent Benchmark, Wonder Full scores 13.1 against 4.2 for Opus 5.5, though the low absolute numbers show how far legal agent work still has to go.

Active Memory and Active Focus in Muse Wonder

Both models take text, image, video, and audio as input, return text, and support a 1-million-token context window, unchanged from Spark 1.3. Meta trained them at its Prometheus data center in Ohio, building on the pretraining and reinforcement-learning approach it set out with Muse Spark.

The two named capabilities aim at agent work that runs over days, not turns. Active Memory carries relevant context across conversations and retrieves it when a later task needs it; Meta’s internal MemoryBench tests recall across multi-turn conversations of 64,000 to 100,000 tokens with conflicting updates mixed in, and TechCrunch reports Wonder scoring above Fable, Opus, and Astra on it. Active Focus is persistence under friction: trying another approach after a failure, adapting when requirements change, and checking in before a consequential action.

One gap in the independent numbers is knowledge recall. On AA-Omniscience, Wonder Full scores 30 and Wonder 25, below Opus 5.5 at 46. Low hallucination rates soften that: Wonder Full’s 23% rate is the second lowest of any model scoring 45 or higher on the index.

Price: Muse Wonder at $4 and $20 per Million Tokens

Muse Wonder costs $4 per million input tokens, $0.20 per million cached input tokens, and $20 per million output tokens through the Meta Model API, the same list price as Claude Opus 5.5. That is double Claude Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon, and GPT-6.1 Sol ($2/$10), and 60% below GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 ($10/$50). Wonder Full has no per-token price because it has no API.

Per token is not per task. Artificial Analysis puts Wonder at $4.52 per Intelligence Index task at max effort, below Opus 5.5 ($5.98) and Fable 5.1 ($7.63) but above GPT-6 Astra ($3.26) and nearly triple Spark 1.3 ($1.60). The driver is input volume: about 7.69 million input tokens per task, even as output falls about 10% from Spark 1.3 to roughly 54,000 tokens. At 83 output tokens per second, Wonder also runs slower than the average frontier model Artificial Analysis measures.

Access to Wonder Full runs through Muse Code subscriptions: Power Usage at $50 per month includes it with 20 times the Everyday plan’s usage; Maximum Usage at $200 per month allows 80 times. Neither model ships as downloadable weights, a clean break from the Llama releases that built Meta’s open-model reputation. The API runs in Standard mode, where Meta says customer content is not used for training. Muse Code subscriptions default to Contributor mode, which allows training use unless the subscriber turns it off for future submissions, and Meta’s terms bar confidential material in that mode.

What the Muse Wonder Model Card Admits

Meta’s model card says that without mitigations, it cannot rule out the unmitigated model reaching the high-risk threshold in the chemical and biological domain, so the family ships with safety post-training and system-level classifiers. With those in place, Meta assesses residual risk at moderate or lower across chemical and biological, cybersecurity, and loss-of-control domains. Wonder Full scores 88.4% on CyberGym and 58.9% on ExploitBench, 87.3% on the MASK honesty-under-pressure test, and 0% harmful actions on Agentic Misalignment. A fuller safety report is promised soon. The listed limitations are plain: multi-step errors in unfamiliar situations, weak 3D and spatial reasoning, and results that vary with the harness around the model.

Bottom Line

Fourteen months after Mark Zuckerberg rebuilt Meta’s AI organization around Alexandr Wang and Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company has a model that independent testing puts within two points of the top of the index, with its best results in exactly the sustained agent work it was built for. The constraint is commercial, not technical: the model that scores 56 cannot be called from an API, embedded in a product, or self-hosted. Teams can rent Wonder by the token today, or meet Wonder Full only inside Meta’s own coding tool. Which of those Meta eventually widens will say more about its frontier ambitions than the next point on the index.

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