India, July 9 -- Meta Platforms Inc. (META) has publicly rolled out Muse Spark 1.1, an upgraded multimodal AI model aimed at agentic coding and software development part of the company's push to compete more directly with OpenAI and Anthropic.

Announced by Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang, the model is now in public preview through Meta's developer portal. Some early partners already have access, while other developers can join a waitlist to use the API. For now, the service will run only on Meta's own infrastructure, rather than on third-party platforms.

Wang called Muse Spark 1.1 Meta's strongest model so far for agentic and coding work. He said it can handle multistep reasoning, manage complex workflows, fix bugs, and support large-scale co...