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Chips US chip sanctions fuel Sino-Russian chip alliance; Huawei Ascend 950 fills void Chips Syntiant files for $300M IPO on edge AI chip momentum, backed by Intel and Microsoft Funding SK Hynix launches $28B US IPO targeting second-largest offering in history Market Anthropic signs $19B, 20-year data center lease with TeraWulf in Kentucky Chips Intel Preps Nova Lake-S Dunlow Workstation CPUs With Up to 28 Cores at 95W TDP Market Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 Paid API; Charges $1.25/$4.25 Per Million Tokens Breaking OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna With 54% Coding Token Efficiency Funding Mercor acquires Deeptune: AI agent simulation platform; $2B ARR, Mag Seven as customers Market GeForce NOW expands Toronto region with RTX 5080 servers; Blackwell rollout now complete globally Funding Kraken Technology becomes Europe's maritime defence unicorn—$175M Series B from NATO, defence investors Policy OpenAI publishes National Security Principles; expands Daybreak cyber access to 9 allied nations Chips Hugging Face transformers backend now reaches native vLLM speed on Qwen3 MoE, dense models Research NVIDIA releases Nemotron Post-Training v3 Prompt Atlas—10T tokens, synthetic personas for agentic AI Breaking Google AlloyDB ships proxy models for semantic queries—23,000x faster, 6,000x cheaper Market SK Hynix Debuts on Nasdaq With $1 Trillion Valuation; Raises $29B for U.S. Expansion Breaking HalluSquatting attack tricks AI agents into running malicious code via hallucinated repos; 85% success rate Funding Europe VC funding hits $24B in Q2 2026—strongest quarter in 4 years as UK leads Breaking SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5; Musk claims Opus-class performance at half the cost Funding SambaNova raises $1B Series F at $11B valuation; JPMorgan deploys inference chips on-prem Market AI companies deploy $200m+ in 2026 midterms; Leading the Future + Public First Action back 40 candidates Chips US chip sanctions fuel Sino-Russian chip alliance; Huawei Ascend 950 fills void Chips Syntiant files for $300M IPO on edge AI chip momentum, backed by Intel and Microsoft Funding SK Hynix launches $28B US IPO targeting second-largest offering in history Market Anthropic signs $19B, 20-year data center lease with TeraWulf in Kentucky Chips Intel Preps Nova Lake-S Dunlow Workstation CPUs With Up to 28 Cores at 95W TDP Market Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 Paid API; Charges $1.25/$4.25 Per Million Tokens Breaking OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna With 54% Coding Token Efficiency Funding Mercor acquires Deeptune: AI agent simulation platform; $2B ARR, Mag Seven as customers Market GeForce NOW expands Toronto region with RTX 5080 servers; Blackwell rollout now complete globally Funding Kraken Technology becomes Europe's maritime defence unicorn—$175M Series B from NATO, defence investors Policy OpenAI publishes National Security Principles; expands Daybreak cyber access to 9 allied nations Chips Hugging Face transformers backend now reaches native vLLM speed on Qwen3 MoE, dense models Research NVIDIA releases Nemotron Post-Training v3 Prompt Atlas—10T tokens, synthetic personas for agentic AI Breaking Google AlloyDB ships proxy models for semantic queries—23,000x faster, 6,000x cheaper Market SK Hynix Debuts on Nasdaq With $1 Trillion Valuation; Raises $29B for U.S. Expansion Breaking HalluSquatting attack tricks AI agents into running malicious code via hallucinated repos; 85% success rate Funding Europe VC funding hits $24B in Q2 2026—strongest quarter in 4 years as UK leads Breaking SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5; Musk claims Opus-class performance at half the cost Funding SambaNova raises $1B Series F at $11B valuation; JPMorgan deploys inference chips on-prem Market AI companies deploy $200m+ in 2026 midterms; Leading the Future + Public First Action back 40 candidates

Market Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 02:32 PM

Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 Paid API; Charges $1.25/$4.25 Per Million Tokens

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on Thursday with public developer API access, marking the company's first paid AI model tier and direct competition with Anthropic and OpenAI in proprietary model sales. The updated model is positioned as Meta's strongest for agentic and coding tasks, with support for 1 million-token context windows and native multimodal reasoning across text, images, and video. Pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, cheaper than OpenAI's Grok 4.5 and Anthropic's Opus. New API accounts get $20 in free credits to start.

Muse Spark 1.1 supports tool use and computer automation for orchestrating multi-step workflows across applications. The company trained the model to work with OpenClaw and other popular agentic harnesses to maximize adoption in the emerging agent-loop ecosystem. Meta is limiting API access to its own infrastructure initially rather than third-party marketplaces like OpenRouter, giving the company direct visibility into usage patterns. A lower-cost open-source variant is in development but no release date was given. Meta is also training Watermelon, a more powerful next-generation model slated for later in 2026.

For teams evaluating agent platforms, Meta's aggressive pricing on Muse Spark 1.1 makes it worth benchmarking against Anthropic and OpenAI for routine coding and agentic workloads where the model can deliver GPT-5.5-class capability at lower token cost. The 1M token context window and native multimodal support fit the rising demand for agents that reason over codebases, documents, and visual context. Meta is betting that controlling the full infrastructure stack—compute, model, and API—lets it undercut pure model-provider pricing while capturing margin on infrastructure.

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