Meta says it has caught up in AI and has no plans to slow down

What happened

The comments come as Meta launched two new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, on October 12, 2026. The Muse lineup and the race it started The new models extend Meta’s Muse platform.

Its flagship consumer product so far has been the Muse personal agent, which launched in early 2026. Advertisement The Muse agent logged 6.6 million downloads and 1.8 million daily active users soon after it went live.

OpenAI responded roughly three weeks after Muse arrived, rolling out its own agent called Dots. Meta's aggressive AI expansion could intensify competition, reshape tech landscapes, and challenge calls for a coordinated development pause.

12, 2026 Mark Zuckerberg says Meta has finished playing catch-up in artificial intelligence. In an interview with the Financial Times, the Meta chief said the company now sits at what it considers the AI frontier.

Meta does not plan to ease off the gas, even as parts of the industry push for a coordinated slowdown in AI development. They put Meta in direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic , the two labs most often treated as the pace-setters in frontier AI. AI, tech, and the markets they move—in one daily briefing.