Meta Unveils AI Coding Agent 'Muse Code'... Emphasizing Price Competitiveness

Contributor Pricing Plan Costs Less Than One-Tenth of Pay-As-You-Go Rates

Meta has unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI) coding agent, 'Muse Code.' Leveraging its lower pricing, the company is challenging the AI coding agent market currently dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, announced via the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) the launch of a beta version of "Muse Code," which can perform tasks such as code writing and result verification in software engineering work.

He described Muse Code as "a terminal-based coding agent capable of handling the entirety of software engineering work, including planning changes in large code repositories, writing code, and verifying results," adding that it is "based on Muse Spark 1.2, with improvements focused on coding performance."

According to Meta's internal performance comparison, as released by Zuckerberg, Muse Spark 1.2 scored 82.9% on 'TerminalBench 2.1,' which measures the real-world software development capabilities of AI coding agents, outperforming OpenAI Codex (81.8%). However, it fell short of Anthropic's Claude Code (86.7%). On 'DeepSWE 1.1,' which evaluates problem-solving for unfamiliar software development tasks, Muse Spark 1.2 recorded 59.3%, trailing both Claude Code (65.0%) and Codex (64.8%).

Alexander Wang, head of AI at Meta Superintelligence Labs, told CNBC that Muse Code "can be installed with a single command line and can handle a variety of software engineering tasks such as planning changes, writing code, and verifying results."

He further explained that Muse Code and the Muse Spark model were differentiated by focusing on price competitiveness rather than performance compared to Anthropic and OpenAI products. He highlighted that Muse Code "offers a contributor pricing plan that allows you to start using it at a much lower cost," emphasizing, "the price is less than one-tenth of the pay-as-you-go plan."

Muse Code is offered with two pricing options: a standard pay-as-you-go plan at the same price as the standard Muse Spark model, and a contributor plan with a price less than one-tenth of that. The contributor fee is 20 cents per 1 million output tokens. However, users must agree to provide feedback to help improve the agent.

CEO Zuckerberg stated, "Muse Spark 1.2 is the next step towards state-of-the-art AI models," and added, "We will release even larger and more powerful models in the future."

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