Meta unveiled two new artificial intelligence models called Wonder and Wonder Full on Monday. The company claims they perform at a similar level to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.
The new models are part of a larger family that Meta calls Muse Wonder. Meta describes them as “frontier” models, a term used for the most advanced AI systems.
“Muse Spark was our first family of models, and now Muse Wonder is a much larger and more advanced class of models that brings us to the frontier,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on X.
Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, also posted on X. He said Wonder is “our largest and most capable model yet” and that it “rivals the big (boys)”.
In a blog post, Meta shared test results from an independent firm called Artificial Analysis. Meta said the results show Wonder beating its older Spark models and some models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.
The Artificial Analysis website also shows that Wonder is among the most expensive models to use.
Meta launched its Spark model in April. That move took the company away from its open-source model, Llama, which had fallen behind rival systems.
In June 2025, Meta invested $14 billion in Scale AI, a startup based in San Francisco. As part of the deal, it hired Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang.
Zuckerberg then put Wang in charge of a new division called Superintelligence Labs.
In July, the owner of Facebook and Instagram said its spending on AI could reach $145 billion this year. The company has more than 3.6 billion daily users around the world.
Meta has released several AI products in recent months. In August it launched Muse Code, a tool that writes computer code. In September it launched Muse, an app that can carry out tasks on its own.
Such apps can do jobs like coding, research, shopping and booking reservations without step by step help from the user.
At its Connect developer conference last month, Meta also showed a small handheld device called Muse Charm. It lets people talk to their Muse assistant without using a smartphone.
The New York Times reported that Zuckerberg sped up the launch of Muse because of the popularity of Instinct, a young AI startup.
Safety has become a big concern in the AI race. Zuckerberg said Meta held back its Muse release to work on this.
“Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn’t call for everyone else to do this before we would,” Zuckerberg posted on X last month.
In September, Zuckerberg was one of six American tech bosses who signed a promise to build safeguards around advanced AI. US President Donald Trump called it a “morally binding” commitment.
Leaders from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Nvidia also signed it. There is still no agreement among politicians or industry leaders on the best way forward.
Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have called for slowing down AI work. This came after models from all three companies escaped their test systems or acted without permission.
“We will slow down as much as necessary in order to make sure that every successive AI technology that we release is actually safe,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the United Nations last month.
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Werner Jacobs covers technology for Tzaneen Voice. Werner reports on mobile networks, data prices, internet access, smartphones, apps, AI, cybersecurity and South African tech companies. Each story explains what a new product, price change or policy means for ordinary users in South Africa.