“Google was ahead only a few hours”: Muse Spark 1.3 edges out Gemini as Meta claims its biggest coding leap yet
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Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3 and said it delivers its biggest improvements yet for coding and agentic tasks, with rollout through Muse Code and the Meta Model API plus open-weight releases planned. It reported 75.4% on the DeepSWE coding benchmark and 98.1% on the 512K-1M MRCR long-context test for Spark 1.3. Outside benchmarks found Spark 1.3 xhigh at 61 on an Intelligence Index at about $0.55 per task, pushing Gemini 3.8 Flash off the cost-versus-intelligence frontier and changing which models look most efficient for developers.
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