Meta Muse Wonder Has Impressive Benchmarks BUT Terrible Results!
Meta just dropped Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full. On Meta's own chart it beats Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 on legal work, business workflows and memory. Then people tested it, and a lava lamp came out as a red cylinder. In this video: what Muse Wonder is, who it's actually built for (personal and professional agents), where it wins and where Claude still wins, what it costs, and whether it's really "benchmaxxed". 🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO BYTEFORWARD AI news, coding agents, model comparisons, benchmarks, and the things people are actually building: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGGHPOAzUaKsSc2yjsOeAFQ?sub_confirmation=1 Chapters 0:00 Meta dropped Muse Wonder 0:51 What Muse Wonder is 1:24 Who it is actually for 2:36 The benchmarks: where it wins 3:21 Where Claude Opus 5.5 still wins 3:59 Price and how to get it 4:48 The demo fight: benchmaxxed? 5:33 What Meta says about the 3D demos 5:50 My two cents Price and access (Oct 12, 2026) - Muse Wonder costs $4 per 1M input tokens, $0.20 per 1M cached input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens, through the Meta Model API and Muse Code. - Muse Wonder Full is only available to Muse Code subscribers. There's no per-token price for it yet. - In Muse, Meta's assistant, Muse Wonder is rolling out to paying subscribers first; Meta says it will reach everyone over time. - Artificial Analysis measured about $4.52 per Intelligence Index task. Sources Meta's announcement and benchmark table: https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder Mark Zuckerberg: https://x.com/finkd/status/2109689305073614918 Alexandr Wang on 3D demo games: https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2109728684802523156 Alexandr Wang on the Muse Code usage bug: https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2109714291062620560 Artificial Analysis: https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2109697083519447118 Abundant (SWE-Marathon): https://x.com/abundant_labs/status/2109697739168874891 BridgeBench lava lamp test: https://x.com/bridgemindai/status/2109733498114417013 Voxel pagoda: https://x.com/LuminaBench/status/2109707886158840136 Koi pond comparison: https://x.com/thtbee_/status/2109724440120721885 Ethan Mollick's shader test: https://x.com/emollick/status/2109714218014667039 Matt Deitke's 3D kitchen game: https://x.com/mattdeitke/status/2109697245088215210 Henrique Dubugras (Brex): https://x.com/hdubugras/status/2109708048327758036 Theo's rankings: https://x.com/theo/status/2109724741234028639 Muse CLI test footage: https://x.com/SPAC89/status/2109708774902571053 "Made up a bug fix": https://x.com/elshayib_/status/2109726189472366779 #MuseWonder #MetaAI #AINews
