Meta's New AI Model Gives Mark Zuckerberg a Seat at the Big Kid's Table
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If Muse Spark’s benchmarks hold, the model game is now about distribution, tooling, and ecosystem lock-in—not raw capability gaps. Operators should assume “good enough frontier” is available from multiple vendors and optimize for integration surface, data governance, and unit economics, not brand.
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