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Muse Spark Open model architecture displayed on two connected Apple Mac Studio workstations on a tech desk

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Meta Drops Muse Spark Open to Battle Chinese Models on the Edge

Meta launched Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter multimodal beast engineered to strip Qwen and Kimi of their edge-inference crown.

Ray Dalton · 20d ago · 6 min read

Voice AI audio waveforms and real-time streaming video metrics displayed on a monitor.

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Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Slashes Voice AI Costs to Pennies

Qwen launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash at $0.15 per million input tokens, undercutting Google Gemini Flash by 80% while matching multimodal benchmarks.

Devon Achebe · Sep 19, 2026 · 4 min read

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