Meta’s AI chief says new Muse Spark update will sharpen coding, agentic AI

Meta is set to launch a new Muse Spark model with stronger coding and agentic capabilities, as Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang touted the update as a step toward closing the gap with rival AI platforms and expanding the company’s enterprise AI ambitions. “..Our next Muse Spark update is coming soon. Big improvements in coding and agentic capabilities to be more competitive with other leading models,” Wang wrote in a post on X in an attempt to clarify CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about the slow progress in AI agent development made during a company townhall. In the same townhall, Wang said that the next Muse Spark update, codenamed Watermelon, which uses far more compute than its predecessor, has already caught up with OpenAI’s flagship GPT 5.5 model, according to a Business Insider report that cited anonymous sources. What the update means for enterprises The stronger coding and agentic capabilities in Watermelon, according to Pareekh Jain, principal analyst at Pareekh Consulting, cou

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