How Muse Wonder pulled Meta back to the AI frontier
A licensed analysis republished by TMTPost says Meta Superintelligent Labs released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Oct 12, 2026, scoring 52 and 56 on Artificial Analysis's intelligence index — the Full version level with Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 and ahead of GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Argon. It credits Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, brought into Meta as chief AI officer in June 2025 through a $14.3B investment, with betting on personal agents built around Active Memory and Active Focus instead of head-on competition with OpenAI and Anthropic on coding and abstract reasoning. The piece adds that Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 still leads the index at 58, that GPT-6.1 Sol retains a cost-efficiency edge, and that Muse Wonder Full is currently limited to Muse Code subscribers with enterprise availability unclear.
If the third-party scores hold up, Meta is again a frontier competitor in personal agents — a reminder of how fast talent and org changes can reshape the model race.