Mark Zuckerberg has revealed the moment he nearly second-guessed the biggest bet of his career.
“We’re gonna write this cheque for like a hundred billion dollars or two hundred billion dollars,” Zuckerberg said. “I’m like, ‘Alex, you sure this is gonna work?'” Appearing on the Cheeky Pint podcast with Meta’s chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, the Meta CEO recalled weighing the spending ahead and putting a blunt question to Wang.
Meta’s Muse AI agent app climbed to the top of Apple’s App Store, crossing 2.8 million downloads in its first 12 days across the US and Canada, according to Sensor Tower. It also set a US daily record of 264,000 downloads on September 19. The mood shifted in September. Days later at Meta Connect, the company showed off Muse Charm, a pocket device built purely for voice chats with the agent.
Meta says both scored nearly as well as Anthropic’s most advanced models on reasoning, writing and coding tests, though those numbers come from its own data. Muse Wonder Full is limited to subscribers of Meta’s Muse Code tool, while Muse Wonder is also available through the Meta Model API. Internally codenamed Watermelon, the models were held back after Meta paused pre-training in July. Zuckerberg teased them over the weekend on an Instagram livestream, while barbecuing.
On Monday came Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full.