The Frontier

Meta is building an AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg trained on his mannerisms and strategic thinking to interact with employees. A separate 'CEO Agent' project gives Zuckerberg coding assistance.

Meta's new Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model designed primarily for personal agents, not enterprise use. The model supports tool use, visual chain-of-thought, and multi-agent orchestration.

Ethan Mollick notes Muse Spark is fine but doesn't match the big three models, displaying some strange language and looseness with facts. François Chollet criticizes Meta for over-optimizing for benchmarks at the expense of actual usefulness.

Alexander Wang of Meta responded to criticism by saying the lab is open to feedback and is upfront about the model's weaknesses, such as low performance on the ARB GI 2 benchmark.

Nick sees Meta as a formidable competitor in AI because its advertising business lets it deliver a consumer experience without directly monetizing the model, and it doesn't have to sell compute to others.