Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, an upgraded artificial intelligence model that the company says has reached the level of the strongest systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, described Muse Spark 1.3 as competitive with Anthropic’s latest model and stronger than OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol in coding tasks. Those are Meta’s comparisons, not the result of an independent benchmark. The significance of the release is that Meta is no longer presenting Muse Spark as a promising challenger still catching up. It is positioning the model as a direct choice for complex coding, multimodal reasoning and software agents. FROM ASSISTANT TO WORKING AGENT Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out through Muse Code and the Meta Model API. …