Meta releases Muse Wonder models in its first frontier-model effort

Meta releases Muse Wonder models in its first frontier-model effort

2 min read•Oct 13, 2026•
Elena Vasquez
Elena Vasquez

Meta has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first attempt at a frontier model, first reported by TechCrunch. The larger models are positioned as more capable than Muse Spark, with Meta citing higher benchmark scores and stronger results on complex tasks such as coding, as well as an emphasis on retaining and synthesizing user-provided information.

Meta’s testing gives the pair benchmark scores comparable to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra. The company also says Muse Wonder scores higher on MemoryBench than Fable, Opus or Astra.

Meta calls its focus on retaining and synthesizing information provided by users active memory. Research scientist Kavya Kopparapu said in a launch video that the team worked to help the model remember information important to users over days, weeks, months and beyond.

Meta splits access by version: Muse Wonder costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens through the Meta Model API, roughly equivalent in cost to GPT-6 Sol or Opus 5.5. Muse Wonder Full is available only to Muse Code subscribers and will not be served through the API; both models will power the Muse agent.

The models mark Meta’s first frontier-model release since Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang restructured the company’s AI efforts in August of last year. Since then, Meta has released lightweight Muse Spark and Muse agent while avoiding the kind of state-of-the-art model releases OpenAI and Anthropic are known for.

The models were trained at Meta’s Prometheus data center in central Ohio, which came online earlier this year.

Plug-in vehicles reach 32% of global registrations in September

Plug-in vehicles reached 32% of global registrations in September, first reported by Cleantechnica. Battery-electric vehicles accounted for 23% of registrations and set a record at 1.54 million, up 8% year over year, while plug-in hybrids fell 9%; year to date in 2026, BEVs were up 12% and PHEVs down 10%.

Global plug-in registrations rose 3% year over year to around 2.16 million in September, close to the all-time record of 2.17 million set last December.

Year to date, plug-in registrations were up 4% year over year: BEVs grew 12%, while PHEVs fell 10%. Their combined share for 2026 stood at 25%, with BEVs at 18% and PHEVs at 7%. The overall growth rate therefore hides a clear split between the two categories.

The Tesla Model Y led the model rankings with a record 165,000 registrations, up 17% year over year. Tesla Model 3 came second with 65,000, enough to move ahead of Geely Xingyuan and BYD Song despite a 4% annual decline.

BYD Song finished fourth at 54,519 registrations, up 19% and the fastest growth rate among the top five. An export push and the new-generation Ultra body helped lift the model.

At the make level, Tesla had a record 232,000 registrations, up 9% year over year. Toyota reached 61,332 for its fourth record in a row, finishing ahead of Volkswagen’s year-best 58,000 to become September’s best-selling legacy make.