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Meta ships Muse Wonder, with six reasoning levels

Short answer

Meta AI has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which it calls its most capable models. Artificial Analysis scores Muse Wonder at its Max setting as equivalent to GPT-6.1 Sol. Muse Wonder offers six reasoning levels. It is the third Meta model in about ten weeks, so teams on Meta's API should expect frequent changes.

What this means for operators

If any workflow of yours calls a Meta model, such as lead qualification, ticket triage or drafting replies, treat Muse Wonder as a candidate to test, not a switch to flip. Run your own sample of real tickets or CRM records through it at a low and a high reasoning level and compare the quality of the output. Then compare the cost and the wait for each answer, because the source gives no pricing. The release pace matters more than any single model. With a new Meta model arriving roughly monthly, keep the model name and reasoning level in one config setting, and keep a fixed test set so that re-checking takes an afternoon rather than a project.

Meta AI has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which it describes as its new "most capable models". The details come from a post by Simon Willison, who also announced the 0.2 release of his llm-meta-ai plugin, which adds support for the new model to his LLM tool. Meta's own announcement is on its research blog.

What is in the release

Muse Wonder comes with six reasoning levels: minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh and max. The source does not say what each level changes or how they differ in cost or speed, and it gives no pricing or availability details beyond the plugin update for the Meta AI API.

How it is rated

Artificial Analysis scores Muse Wonder at the Max level as equivalent to GPT-6.1 Sol. Willison suggests these may be Meta's first models in what he calls the "Fable class". That classification is his reading, not something Meta has confirmed in the source.

The pace

Willison notes that Muse 1.3 came out on September 2nd and Muse 1.2 on August 5th. In his words, Meta is putting out a new model a month. He adds that the improvement between releases is material, judging by his informal test of asking each model to draw a pelican riding a bicycle. That test is a quick visual check, not a formal benchmark, and the source offers no other measure of the gains between versions.

What is not in the source

There are no prices, rate limits, context window sizes or rollout dates in the source, so none are given here. Anyone planning to use the model for production work will need Meta's documentation for those details.

Source: Simon Willison

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