Meta has unveiled a new family of AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonderful, which it says can handle personal and professional agents, memory and coding. Meta Superintelligence head Alexander Wang describes them as true frontier models, competitive with the best in the world and state-of-the-art in personal and professional agentic work. The hosts question whether users will switch from preferred models that already hold their memory and workflows, especially when they pay 20 USD or 100 USD a month to Anthropic or OpenAI. Meta shares rose about 3.4% the previous day, but the discussion notes Meta has long struggled to win enterprise customers against Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet.
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| Market | US stocks |
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| Sector | Communication Services |
| Industry | Interactive Media & Services |
| Market cap | $1.9T |
| Close on 10/12/2026 | 742.96 |
| Change that session | +3.38% |
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