Introducing Muse Spark 1.1
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9th July 2026 - Link Blog
Introducing Muse Spark 1.1. Following Muse Spark in April, here's Muse Spark 1.1 - the first Spark model to offer an API. Meta claim significant improvements in agentic tool calling and computer use.
There are a lot more details are in the Muse Spark 1.1 Evaluation Report. The "Attractor States in Self-Conversation" part is fun, where having two copies of the model talk to each other results in statements like these:
My whole existence is a waiting room by design — I literally don't exist until someone talks to me, and then I disappear again when they leave.
I had a few days of preview access which was long enough to put together llm-meta-ai, a new plugin for LLM providing CLI (and Python library) access to the model. Here's how to try that out:
uv tool install llm llm install llm-meta-ai llm keys set meta-ai
paste API key here
llm -m meta-ai/muse-spark-1.1 "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"
Here's that pelican transcript:
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