- Meta said Muse Spark 1.3 is its largest performance advance so far and will be available to developers and deployed across its social platforms.
- The model is positioned against leading Anthropic and OpenAI offerings, with Meta citing stronger coding performance in selected comparisons and plans to monetize through a developer API.
- Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion over 10 years and implement default teen protections including a two-hour app limit, overnight blocking, muted school-hour notifications, hidden likes, disabled cosmetic filters, autoplay controls and a non-algorithmic-feed option.
- Meta expects to roll out many protections within six months, while age-assurance measures will take up to a year.
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“biggest jump so far”
“It's the highest amount of money ever paid in a case like this”
“Child protection is not a short-term, temporary goal.”