The Reach Machine That Also Ships Open Weights
Meta launched an enterprise division on September 28, 2026 and Mark Zuckerberg called it the next major pillar of the business. It has no published price, no tier list and no availability date. That’s the gap to plan around. Everything else got more concrete. The Meta Model API is generally available globally. Muse Glimmer’s weights are on HuggingFace with a 128K default context. Muse Code is out of beta and runs on Windows. Meta still ships open weights under two different licenses, and still reuses the word Muse for a model family, a consumer agent, a coding tool and a device. Say which one you mean.
One hosted track, two open licenses, one paid tier, one enterprise division
Five tracks now, not four. First, the hosted one. Muse Spark runs on the Meta Model API, which went generally available globally at Connect, and it’s on Oracle Cloud AI Platform too. It’s the track to pick when a Meta-operated endpoint is fine for you. But you can’t read a price for it anywhere. Then two open-weight families under two licenses. Muse Glimmer is Apache 2.0, with its weights on HuggingFace and the fewest conditions of any Meta model. Llama 4 is the Llama Community License, with its 700 million monthly-active-user clause. You reach for Llama 4 when you need the bigger open models and can live with that clause. And on either open path, the hosting is yours or a partner’s, never Meta’s. Above all that sits Meta One, a paid subscription live globally since September 15, 2026. And since September 28 there’s a fifth thing: Meta Enterprise Platform, a whole division with a leader, a bundle and no price. So that’s five doors, right? Pick the track before you pick the model.
Muse Spark 1.3
Built by Meta Superintelligence Labs. It powers the Meta AI assistant, meta.ai and the standalone Muse agent. Meta dated 1.3 for the first time on September 24, 2026, describing it as bringing frontier-level reasoning to complex coding and agentic workflows. Version 1.2 also exists as a public, selectable model, and it’s what Muse Code runs by default.
· Available through the Meta Model API, through Oracle Cloud AI Platform, and in private preview on Google Cloud.
- Version 1.3 is current and now dated
- 1.2 is live and is Muse Code’s default
- No downloadable Muse Spark weights
Muse Glimmer
A 30B open model Meta describes as built for always-on local agents, designed to run on a single GPU or a Mac Mini, and tuned for tool use, long tasks and failure recovery. Apache 2.0, not the Llama Community License. Meta’s own documentation describes a dense, decoder-only multimodal transformer with an integrated vision encoder: text and image in, text out.
- Apache 2.0 removes the 700 million user condition
- 128K default context, longer supported
- Weights on HuggingFace, plus Ollama and llama.cpp packaging
- Serving documented for vLLM
Llama 4
Scout and Maverick are natively multimodal open-weight models, still governed by the Llama Community License. The license text and the download paths now live on dev.meta.ai. They are no longer the newest open weights Meta has published, and Meta doesn’t host them for you.
- Deployment control
- Text and image understanding
- License conditions apply, including a user-count threshold
Meta Enterprise Platform
The biggest structural change in the period, and the one with the least detail behind it. Announced September 28, 2026 as a new business division bundling the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, the Muse API and Muse Code. Zuckerberg calls it the next major pillar of the business. CJ Desai, formerly chief executive of MongoDB, is Chief Enterprise Platform Officer. And that’s the whole of what Meta has published. No price, no tier, no date.
· Treat it as a stated intention with a named owner. Not a product you can specify.
- A division, not a SKU
- Senior hire signals real investment
- Zero commercial detail published
Muse for Small Business
Announced September 29, 2026 in the US and Canada. An agent that works in the background toward business goals, with more than 18 connectors including Asana, Canva, Figma, Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Notion, Intuit QuickBooks and Facebook and Instagram business accounts, plus custom connectors. Nothing publishes, sends or spends without approval. Basic features are free, with optional subscription plans.
- Free basic tier, paid plans unspecified
- US and Canada only
- Approval gate on every outbound action
Meta One
A subscription announced on September 15, 2026 and available globally. Nine named tiers across single apps, consumer bundles and Creator and Business bundles. Meta reports more than 50 features launched and 15 million subscriptions and trials to date, and states that Meta AI will still be free for everyday use. Hearing Enhancement for AI glasses is a new benefit on the plan.
- Creator and Business bundles are the consumer-side business SKU
- Media generation, including video, is a subscriber benefit
- Global on announcement
The hosted Llama API
The widely repeated July 6, 2026 shutdown date still has no first-party citation. What changed is the quality of the supporting evidence. Meta now states the absence outright: “Llama models aren’t run for you through Model API.” That’s a positive statement, not an inference from silence. It carries no date. So don’t put July 6 in a client document without checking it yourself.
· Meta’s deprecation document now redirects to dev.meta.ai/docs/llama-api-deprecation, which serves a page with no deprecation content on it. Observed October 1, 2026.
- Meta states Llama is not hosted on the Model API
- The shutdown date itself remains uncited
- Treat July 6, 2026 as a working assumption
The AI blog is 66 days quiet, and Meta shipped a division anyway
Meta’s AI blog has published nothing newer than July 27, 2026. That’s 66 days to October 1. The silence is real. But it tells you nothing about what Meta shipped, because Meta’s publishing moved. Consumer, hardware, safety and business news lands on about.fb.com/news. Developer news lands on developers.meta.com/blog. Model pages, docs and the Llama 4 license live on dev.meta.ai. So if you’re buying, four things from late September matter: Meta Enterprise Platform on September 28, Muse for Small Business on September 29, the Model API reaching general availability on September 24, and a hardware slate with prices attached.
Meta Enterprise Platform September 28, 2026
Meta stood up an enterprise division and named a leader for it. The bundle is the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, the Muse API and Muse Code. Zuckerberg’s framing is that this is the next major pillar of the business. CJ Desai, formerly chief executive of MongoDB, is Chief Enterprise Platform Officer.
· What’s missing is everything a buyer needs: no price, no tier, no availability date, no API specification, no stated compliance posture beyond what the Model API already claims. This is the most commercially significant gap in Meta’s AI estate today, and it’s Meta’s omission rather than a reading problem.
- A division with a named owner
- Bundles four existing products
- No commercial detail at all
- Do not put a number against it in a proposal
Muse for Small Business September 29, 2026
An agent that runs in the background against stated business goals. More than 18 connectors, including Asana, Canva, Figma, Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Notion, Intuit QuickBooks and Facebook and Instagram business accounts, with custom connectors on top. Meta states that nothing publishes, sends or spends without approval. Free for basic features, with optional subscription plans Meta hasn’t priced.
· Available in the US and Canada.
- Free basic tier
- Approval required before any outbound action
- Paid plans exist but are unpriced
- US and Canada only
Meta Model API Generally available
Meta states that the Model API is now generally available globally, with support and compliance for enterprise workloads through its first-party API and through third-party partners. It serves Muse Spark through an OpenAI-compatible interface and carries no Llama models. Distribution is now multi-cloud: Muse Spark 1.3 is on Oracle Cloud AI Platform, and Google Cloud has it in private preview.
· The one thing still unreadable is price. Meta’s pricing route resolves and returns no numbers.
- Generally available globally, stated September 24, 2026
- OpenAI-compatible package eases migration
- Oracle Cloud GA; Google Cloud private preview
- No readable price at all
Muse Glimmer Open weight, Apache 2.0
The Apache 2.0 license is the buyer headline, and the paperwork a procurement team asks for now mostly exists. Meta names the weights repository, the model ID, the context window and the architecture.
· Weights at huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B. Model API ID muse-glimmer. Context 128K by default, with longer contexts supported. Architecture a dense, decoder-only multimodal transformer with an integrated vision encoder, taking text and image inputs and returning text. Runtimes named by Meta: Ollama, llama.cpp, ExecuTorch, LM Studio, Unsloth Desktop, plus Fireworks, Together.AI and OpenRouter. Serving documented for vLLM behind OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
- Two open-weight families now, not one
- No 700 million user gate
- Weights, model ID and context all published
- No first-party release date, so it cannot be put on a timeline
Muse Spark 1.3 September 24, 2026
Meta’s developer recap dates 1.3 for the first time and describes it as bringing frontier-level reasoning to complex coding and agentic workflows. The model list also carries muse-spark-1.2 and muse-spark-1.1, so 1.2 is a real, selectable production model rather than a skipped number.
· The July 9 description of a 1M-token context that the model actively manages, remembering actions, retrieving earlier work and compacting without losing steps, was written about 1.1. Meta hasn’t restated it for 1.3.
- Dated announcement now exists
- Vendor claims: evaluate on your own workload
- Powers Meta AI, meta.ai and the Muse agent
- 1.2 is live and is Muse Code’s default model
Muse Code Out of beta
Meta’s coding agent for the terminal and CI, built for Muse Spark, with approvals and operating-system sandboxing. It left beta at Connect and added Windows.
· Install with curl -fsSL https://dev.meta.ai/install.sh | sh on macOS and Linux, or irm https://dev.meta.ai/install.ps1 | iex on Windows. Both place a native muse binary on the path. Default model is muse-spark-1.2. On Windows there’s no voice input and no session messaging.
- Terminal and CI, not an IDE plugin
- macOS, Linux and Windows
- Default model muse-spark-1.2
- Part of the Meta Enterprise Platform bundle
Muse, the standalone agent Still US only
Launched September 8, 2026 as a personal AI agent, powered by Muse Spark. The rollout hasn’t widened. Meta revised the launch article on September 30, 2026 and the availability language is unchanged: the US, on iOS, Android and muse.ai. AI glasses were restated at Connect as coming months, not shipped.
· New at Connect: Muse gets its own email address it can use to get things done, plus connectors for Walmart, Best Buy, American Eagle Outfitters, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Fanatics, Gap, Michael Kors, Sephora, Ulta, Wayfair, Shop Pay, PayPal, Expedia, Instacart, Notion, Granola, GitHub and Box.
- US only, confirmed by a September 30 revision
- Glasses access is coming months, not available
- Its relationship to Meta AI is still undocumented
- Connectors reach commerce, payment and code systems
Muse Voice Transcribe and SAM 3.1 In the model list
Two models worth knowing that sit in Meta’s published model list. Muse Voice Transcribe, model ID muse-voice-transcribe, which Meta described at Connect as leading voice-to-text. And SAM 3.1, model ID sam-3.1, which supersedes the SAM 3 segmentation model Meta deployed in the Genesis Mission work.
· Meta publishes no separate dated announcement for either one.
- Speech-to-text and segmentation, not chat
- SAM 3.1 supersedes SAM 3
- Model IDs are publishable; release dates are not
Meta One September 15, 2026
A global paid subscription. Meta reports more than 50 features launched and 15 million subscriptions and trials to date, and states that Meta AI will still be free for everyday use. Subscriber benefits include more media generation with Meta AI, covering image creation and editing and video generation. Hearing Enhancement for AI glasses can now be obtained with a subscription.
· Nine named tiers: Instagram Plus at $3.99 a month, WhatsApp Plus at $2.99, Facebook Plus at $3.99, Core at $7.99, Premium at $19.99. Then Creator and Business bundles, at Essential from $14.99, Advanced from $49.99, Expert from $149 and Max from $499.
- Prices are Meta’s published starting points, not quotes
- Hearing Enhancement is a new plan benefit
- Per-tier AI usage limits are not published readably
Meta Business Agent June 3, 2026
Meta’s original business-facing agent, expanded to businesses of all sizes globally across WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, with more than one million businesses using it. Free to start, with paid subscriptions foreshadowed. Meta has since shipped two more things in that space: the Meta One Creator and Business bundles in September, and Muse for Small Business on September 29. The Business Agent is now listed as a component of Meta Enterprise Platform.
- Free to start, paid access still unpriced
- WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram
- Now named inside the enterprise bundle
Agentic Meta AI July 24, 2026
Assistant capabilities that act rather than only answer: daily briefings, recurring tasks, web research and slide generation, stated as powered by Muse Spark 1.1. No dated post since revisits the market scope. The standalone Muse agent covers similar ground under a different brand, and Connect added connectors to Muse rather than to this surface. So where agentic behavior actually ships is still a question you answer per surface.
- Rolled out that day in select markets
- WhatsApp support in the coming weeks, never since dated
- Scope unconfirmed rather than confirmed static
Muse Image Shipped
Meta’s image generation model, combining prompt reasoning, web context and multiple visual references inside the Meta AI experience. It carries the model ID muse-image-1.0 in Meta’s model list. Shipped doesn’t mean everywhere, though. One cross-guide fact is worth knowing: Muse Image arrived inside Runway on August 26, 2026 as the muse_image API model, so Meta’s image model is reachable through a competitor’s platform as well as Meta’s own apps.
· Meta’s July 7 post puts it in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai, in Instagram Stories in the US and on WhatsApp in limited countries, with Facebook listed as coming soon.
- Generate and edit
- Blend multiple photo references
- Text, QR codes and presets
- Also in Runway as muse_image since August 26, 2026
Muse Video Still unnamed
Announced alongside Muse Image on July 7, 2026 as coming soon, and never given an availability date under that name. Video generation does ship, behind Meta One. But Meta attributes it to “Muse models” at family level and no video model appears in Meta’s published model list. So the capability is real and the brand name isn’t confirmed against it. Don’t write Muse Video onto a shipped feature, and don’t tell a client Meta has no video generation.
- Video generation ships behind Meta One
- Attributed to Muse models as a family, not to a named model
- No video model ID exists in Meta’s model list
The Zuckerberg letter August 10, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg published “The Future is for Everyone,” a positioning letter rather than a product announcement. The open source promise in it has been kept: Muse Glimmer is an open-weight model under Apache 2.0, with weights anyone can pull. The letter’s other promises, a capable personal agent for everyone and a fully private mode Meta itself can’t see into, remain undelivered.
· The line that mattered, verbatim: “Now that Meta Superintelligence Labs are up and running, we will resume releasing some open source models soon.”
- The open source promise is now met
- The private-mode promise is not
- Quote as direction, not as a capability matrix entry
Llama 4 Scout Open weight
A 17B-active, 109B-total model with 16 experts, native multimodality and a supported 10M context window. Still governed by the Llama Community License.
- Efficient deployment target
- Fits on one H100 with Int4 quantization according to Meta
- Long-context and image grounding
Llama 4 Maverick Open weight
A 17B-active, 400B-total model with 128 experts, for stronger general multimodal, reasoning and coding work. Still governed by the Llama Community License.
- Higher serving requirement than Scout
- General-purpose open model
- Available from Meta and partners
Llama Guard 4
Meta’s safety model accompanies the Llama 4 ecosystem for classification and protection workflows. Nothing equivalent has been documented for Muse Glimmer.
- Part of a broader safety system
- Requires task-specific evaluation
- Does not replace application controls
Behemoth Not released
Meta described the Llama 4 teacher model as still training in the original announcement, and nothing since has changed that. Don’t include it as an available model.
- No current downloadable model
- No procurement assumption
- Update only from a new official release
| Model | Model ID | Access and license | Parameters | Context | Primary use |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muse Spark 1.3 | muse-spark-1.3-contributor | Meta Model API, generally available globally; also Oracle Cloud AI Platform; proprietary | Not publicly disclosed | 1M and actively self-managed, stated for 1.1 and not restated for 1.3 | Meta AI assistant, the Muse agent, agentic tasks and product experiences |
| Muse Spark 1.2 | muse-spark-1.2 | Meta Model API; proprietary | Not publicly disclosed | Not published | Default model for Muse Code |
| Muse Glimmer | muse-glimmer; weights repo meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B | Open weights under Apache 2.0, published on HuggingFace | 30B total; active count not disclosed | 128K by default, longer supported | Always-on local agents, tool use, long tasks and failure recovery |
| Muse Image | muse-image-1.0 | Meta AI and selected Meta apps; proprietary | Not publicly disclosed | Visual conversation context | Image generation and editing |
| Muse Voice Transcribe | muse-voice-transcribe | Meta Model API; proprietary | Not publicly disclosed | Not published | Voice to text |
| SAM 3.1 | sam-3.1 | Meta Model API; supersedes SAM 3 | Not publicly disclosed | Not applicable | Image and video segmentation |
| Muse Video | No model ID published | Video generation ships inside Meta One; no named model | Not publicly disclosed | Not publicly disclosed | Video generation, attributed to Muse models as a family |
| Llama 4 Scout | Not served by Meta | Download and partners under the Llama Community License; no Meta-hosted API | 17B active / 109B total | 10M supported | Efficient long-context multimodal deployment |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Not served by Meta | Download and partners under the Llama Community License; no Meta-hosted API | 17B active / 400B total | 1M listed in Meta’s launch materials | Stronger open-weight generalist |
Meta puts intelligence where social and personal context already lives, and now sells it four ways
Muse Spark is built for Meta’s distribution advantage. Billions of users. Messaging, public content, cameras, shopping, social graphs and wearables. Three things changed in September. The standalone Muse agent got its own email address and eighteen commerce and productivity connectors. Muse for Small Business shipped in the US and Canada with a free tier. And Meta Enterprise Platform appeared above all of it with no price attached. One thing didn’t change. Muse the agent is still US only, on iOS, Android and muse.ai.
Muse, the personal AI agent
Launched September 8, 2026. Still rolling out in the US only, on iOS, Android and muse.ai, confirmed by a September 30, 2026 revision to the launch article. Meta describes it as powered by Muse Spark and built for real-world agentic work, free for most of what people need, with subscription plans above that. AI glasses access was restated at Connect as coming months.
What Muse can now reach
Connect added connectors for Walmart, Best Buy, American Eagle Outfitters, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Fanatics, Gap, Michael Kors, Sephora, Ulta, Wayfair, Shop Pay, PayPal, Expedia, Instacart, Notion, Granola, GitHub and Box. Meta also states that Muse will have its own email address it can use to get things done. That’s a new data and identity surface, not only a feature.
Muse for Small Business
September 29, 2026, US and Canada. Background agent work against stated goals, with more than 18 connectors including Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Notion, Canva, Figma, Asana and Intuit QuickBooks. Nothing publishes, sends or spends without approval. Free for basic features, with optional subscription plans Meta hasn’t priced.
Meta Enterprise Platform
September 28, 2026. A division rather than a product, bundling the Muse agent, Meta Business Agent, the Muse API and Muse Code, under a Chief Enterprise Platform Officer hired from MongoDB. No pricing, tiers or dates. If a client asks what Meta sells an enterprise today, the honest answer is the Model API and Meta One, with this on the horizon.
Meta One
Global since September 15, 2026. Nine named tiers, from $2.99 a month for WhatsApp Plus to $499 a month for the Max business bundle. Meta says Meta AI will still be free for everyday use, so the subscription buys extra features and capacity rather than access to the assistant itself. Hearing Enhancement for AI glasses is now a plan benefit.
Meta Business Agent
Announced June 3, 2026 and expanded to businesses of all sizes globally, on WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, with more than one million businesses using it. Free to start. It’s now named as a component of Meta Enterprise Platform, which is the clearest signal yet of where the paid version lands.
Briefings and recurring tasks
Announced July 24, 2026 and powered by Muse Spark 1.1: daily briefings, recurring tasks, web research and slide generation, in select markets with WhatsApp in the coming weeks. Meta hasn’t revisited that scope since, so it’s unchanged on the record and unconfirmed in practice.
Parental alerts for teen distress
From July 16, Meta AI can alert parents when a teen’s conversation shows self-harm signals. Live in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, with global availability stated for year end. Meta added parental supervision on Threads for teens in the Asia-Pacific region on September 15, 2026.
Meta AI app and web
Rich conversation, personal context, web information and direct creation in one consumer surface, now running beside the separate Muse agent app.
WhatsApp and Messenger
Assistant access inside conversations where plans, questions and shared decisions already appear, and where the Business Agent meets customers.
Instagram, Facebook and Threads
Context from public posts, creators, groups and social content can shape search and recommendations. Meta added Forum on September 29, 2026, a standalone US app for Facebook Groups whose Ask feature surfaces existing group posts and comments.
AI glasses
Voice, camera and live visual assistance bring Meta AI into the physical moment, and Connect put prices and dates on the whole line. See the Hardware section. The Muse agent itself isn’t on glasses yet: Meta restated that as coming months.
The whole glasses line now has prices, and the headset waits for spring 2027
Connect priced almost everything. Ray-Ban Meta Audio starts at $349 and ships October 13, 2026. Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 starts at $449. Meta Adventurer is the cheapest in the line at $249, and it launches October 23, 2026. Hearing Enhancement is $149.99, or it comes with Meta One. And Meta VR Glasses, the headline device, is $1,299.99 and doesn’t arrive until spring 2027. Hold all of it loosely. An announced date isn’t a shipped device. Only two of these have a ship date at all, and the headset has a season, not a date.
| Device | Starting price | Availability | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta VR Glasses | $1,299.99 | Spring 2027 | Roughly 100g two-part system: glasses plus a pocket compute puck on an optical tether |
| Ray-Ban Meta Audio | From $349 | Pre-orders open; ships October 13, 2026 | Meta’s first audio-only glasses, 43g, no camera headline |
| Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) | From $449 | No date stated | Camera AI glasses, third generation |
| Meta Adventurer | $249 | Pre-orders open; launches October 23, 2026 | The cheapest device in the Meta Glasses line |
| LISA Collection and Starfire Ivory | From $399 | No date stated | Style editions of the Meta Glasses line |
| Hearing Enhancement | $149.99, HSA and FSA eligible, or with Meta One | US, later in 2026 | FDA-cleared hearing enhancement software for supported AI glasses |
| Muse Charm | Not published | No date; details promised later in 2026 | Pocket-sized voice device for talking to Muse |
Meta VR Glasses $1,299.99, spring 2027
The headline device, and the one furthest out. Roughly 100 grams in two parts: the glasses and a pocket compute puck joined by an optical tether. A 5K Infinite Display using micro-OLED at 37 pixels per degree. Qualcomm Snapdragon Reality Elite. Up to three hours of media playback with 45W fast charge. Meta calls it the first IMAX Enhanced certified VR device, with more than 75 games at launch and Xbox Cloud Gaming.
· Spring 2027 is roughly six months out and is a season, not a date. Don’t schedule a deployment against it.
- Two-part design, not a standalone headset
- Three hours of playback is a real constraint for all-day use
- Price and window published; exact date not
Ray-Ban Meta Audio From $349, ships October 13
Meta’s first audio glasses, and the nearest thing to a mass-market entry point. 43 grams. Up to 12 hours of battery with another 48 from the case. 23 color and lens combinations across Clubmaster and Burbank styles. Prescription compatible. Pre-orders are open and shipping starts October 13, 2026.
- Audio first, so a different privacy conversation than camera glasses
- Battery is the strongest spec in the line
- Prescription compatible
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 From $449
The camera line, third generation. Up to nine hours of battery, one more than Gen 2. 27 color and lens combinations across three styles. A six-microphone array Meta says cuts more than 90 percent of background noise. A 12MP camera with 3K Ultra HD video. A customizable action button.
- Camera and microphone policy applies here, not to the audio model
- Vendor claim on noise reduction: test it in your environment
- Nine hours of battery
Meta Glasses line and markets October 23 for Adventurer
Meta Adventurer is the cheapest device in the line at $249, with pre-orders open and launch on October 23, 2026. The LISA Collection, in Adventurer and Capri editions, starts at $399, as does the Kylie Jenner Starfire edition in new Ivory. New markets: Singapore, South Korea, Mexico and the UAE, with Brazil stated as coming soon. Meta’s stated target is more than 100 styles by year end across Ray-Ban, Oakley and Meta Glasses.
- $249 is the new floor for the line
- Four new markets, Brazil undated
- Style count is a vendor target, not a commitment
Meta Ray-Ban Display October 13 in Europe
Online ordering opened September 23, 2026 in the US, Canada and UK, with retail in Vancouver, Toronto and London. France, Italy and Germany launch October 13, 2026, with retail in Paris, Milan, Rome, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich. Prescriptions through EssilorLuxottica from October 13.
· New features: cycling and public transit directions in the US and Canada, contextual walking directions that use landmarks rather than street names, Dolby Atmos spatial audio capture, an Explore app, enhanced calendar, mirrored phone notifications stated as coming soon, and Threads live feeds. A photorealistic hologram for WhatsApp video calls is Early Access in the US later this fall.
- Ordering is live in three markets, three more on October 13
- Hologram calling is Early Access, not general
- Prescription path is through EssilorLuxottica
Hearing Enhancement $149.99 or with Meta One
FDA-cleared hearing enhancement software for supported AI glasses, aimed at adults with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss. Setup happens at home, with no clinic visit and no prescription. US, later in 2026. Price is $149.99, HSA and FSA eligible, or it comes with a Meta One subscription.
· This is the first time a Meta One subscription buys a regulated medical-adjacent capability, which changes who inside an organization needs to look at the plan.
- FDA cleared, which is a claim with a regulator behind it
- US only, no date beyond later in 2026
- Changes the Meta One buying conversation
Muse Charm No date, no price
Meta described a pocket-sized device built for talking and interacting with Muse, with state-of-the-art real-time voice. Details were promised later in 2026. There’s no price, no specification and no date. It belongs on a roadmap slide, not in a procurement plan.
- Announced only
- No price or specification published
- Do not count it as a 2026 purchase
Muse on glasses did not ship Coming months
The single most repeated hardware expectation going into Connect was the Muse agent arriving on AI glasses: hands-free access, able to act on what the wearer is looking at without describing it. Meta restated it as coming months. It isn’t available. If a plan depends on a glasses-resident agent, that plan has no date behind it.
- Stated as coming months at Connect
- Still not shipped
- The capability is described, not dated
Developer timing, if you are building Time-bound
Two Meta programs run on clocks worth knowing. The Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon has indie and startup tracks, a $1M prize pool and free Model API credits. The Meta VR Start Developer Competition runs September 24 to November 18, 2026, with $1M across 20 prizes, and v207 SDKs for Unity, Unreal, Android and Web are available now. The Wearables Device Access Toolkit left developer preview at 1.0, and web apps now render on Meta Ray-Ban Display with no native app or SDK required.
- VR competition closes November 18, 2026
- Free Model API credits are a real cost offset for a pilot
- Wearables toolkit is at 1.0
Image generation grounded in the social and personal world
Output quality isn’t the whole proposition here. Muse Image can reason over the brief, combine several references and use web context inside the Meta AI experience. It carries the model ID muse-image-1.0 in Meta’s model list. Two cautions travel with it. One launch capability was withdrawn eight days after shipping. And since September 15, 2026 the higher media generation allowances sit behind a paid Meta One plan. So check the current feature set and the plan boundary before you design a workflow around either.
Prompt reasoning
Muse Spark helps plan layout, retrieve relevant context and coordinate visual references before image creation.
- Multi-step generation
- Useful for informational visuals
- Review inferred facts
Multi-photo blending
Combine selfies, vacation images, pets, products and other references into a single creation.
- Check identity consistency
- Respect consent
- Avoid confidential uploads
Text and QR generation
Meta says Muse Image can render clean text and working QR codes for practical visual outputs.
- Test every QR code
- Proofread all text
- Do not trust generated regulatory copy
Presets
Suggested prompts make common transformations and styles reachable without writing a detailed brief.
- Useful for adoption
- Can create generic sameness
- Apply brand judgment
Sketch-based edits
Circle, sketch or annotate directly on the image to describe changes while keeping conversational context.
- Precise local direction
- Iterative editing
- Inspect unintended changes elsewhere
Withdrawn: profile mentions
The launch feature that let users pull public Instagram account content into a generated image was removed on July 15.
· Meta’s update reads: “We’ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it’s no longer available.”
- Eight days from ship to withdrawal
- Do not document it as available
- Review any workflow built on it
Now partly paid
The September 15, 2026 Meta One post lists more media generation with Meta AI among subscriber benefits, covering image creation and editing and video generation. Free-tier limits and per-tier allowances aren’t published in a form anyone can read. So assume a volume workflow needs a paid plan, and confirm the specific limit inside the product before you promise throughput.
- Media volume is a subscription lever
- Per-tier limits unverified
- Budget before promising throughput
Room redesign shopping
Use a room photo and ask for redesigns grounded in real products from the web or Marketplace.
- Visualize before buying
- Verify dimensions and availability
- Separate concept from specification
Advertiser path
Meta announced Muse Image support for Advantage+ creative, extending the model into paid-media production.
- Brand and claim review
- Test across placements
- Track model-generated asset provenance
Create three visual territories for this campaign using only the product images I upload. Explain the strategic idea before generating each route. Do not invent product features or customer claims.
Redesign this room for a hybrid-working professional. Keep the exact room geometry, use products that are currently available, and list the dimensions I must verify before purchase.
Create a 4:5 infographic from these verified facts. Keep text concise and legible. After generating, transcribe every word in the image so I can proofread it.
Keep composition, people and lighting unchanged. Remove only the marked object and rebuild the background naturally. Do not alter faces, clothing or product details.
Two open-weight families, two very different licenses
Open weights matter because you can download, host and customize the model yourself. Meta publishes two open families, under two licenses. Llama 4 Scout and Maverick carry the Llama Community License and its 700 million monthly-active-user condition. Muse Glimmer carries Apache 2.0 and no such condition. So same company, same word “open,” very different paperwork, right? And Meta serves neither one. It now says so directly: Llama models aren’t run for you through the Model API. The serving call is yours, or a third-party host’s. What changed for Glimmer is that you can finally specify it. Model ID, weights repository, context window and architecture are all published.
| Dimension | Muse Glimmer | Llama 4 Scout | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|---|
| License | Apache 2.0 | Llama Community License | Llama Community License |
| User-count condition | None | 700 million monthly active users, then a license request to Meta | Same condition |
| Parameters | 30B total; active count not disclosed | 17B active / 109B total | 17B active / 400B total |
| Experts | Not published; Meta describes a dense architecture | 16 | 128 |
| Supported context | 128K by default, longer supported | 10M | 1M in launch materials |
| Multimodal | Yes: text and image in, text out, via an integrated vision encoder | Yes, natively | Yes, natively |
| Weights location | huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B | Meta developer estate and partners | Meta developer estate and partners |
| Deployment positioning | Single GPU or Mac Mini, per Meta | Single H100 GPU with Int4 quantization | Single H100 host, meaning one multi-GPU server rather than one GPU |
| Best fit | Always-on local and edge agents | Efficient extreme-context work | Stronger general open-weight work |
The license is the headline
Apache 2.0 on Muse Glimmer removes the single condition that dominates every Llama licensing conversation. No user threshold. No request to Meta. No discretionary grant. So if a client stalled on the Llama license, Muse Glimmer is the conversation to reopen. Don’t generalize the permissiveness, though. Llama 4 hasn’t been relicensed, and nothing suggests it will be.
- Two licenses, two risk profiles
- Check which model your vendor actually ships
- Record the license with the artifact
Where the Glimmer weights actually are
Meta names a weights repository on HuggingFace at meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B, and lists runtime packaging for Ollama, llama.cpp, ExecuTorch, LM Studio and Unsloth Desktop. It also names Fireworks, Together.AI and OpenRouter as hosted options. That’s enough to specify a deployment and enough to test one this week.
· The Model API documentation covers serving it with vLLM behind OpenAI-compatible endpoints, which makes an A/B against a hosted endpoint easy to set up.
- One repository, five local runtimes, three hosted partners
- vLLM path documented by Meta
- Pin the repository revision, not just the name
Long-context analysis
Scout’s supported 10M context can carry codebase, archive and multi-document workloads that are otherwise split across requests. Muse Glimmer’s 128K default is a different class of job: an always-on agent holding a working session, not a model swallowing an archive. Meta says longer contexts are supported without saying how much longer, so test the ceiling yourself.
- Test retrieval at real lengths
- Build coverage checks
- 128K and 10M are not competing for the same workload
Multimodal understanding
Scout and Maverick accept text and image inputs for grounding, visual question answering and application-specific workflows. Muse Glimmer does too: Meta documents a dense, decoder-only multimodal transformer with an integrated vision encoder, taking text and image inputs and returning text only. So a vision task is no longer a reason to rule Glimmer out.
- Use exact visual tasks
- Glimmer returns text only, no image output
- Add application guardrails
Fine-tuning and customization
Open weights let an organization adapt behavior, domain language and task performance beyond prompting. Under Apache 2.0 the redistribution question is much simpler than under the Llama license.
- Curate training data
- Prevent regression
- Maintain evaluation baselines
Llama Stack and Llama Guard 4
Meta provides standardized building blocks for inference, evaluation, tools and application development, plus a companion safeguard model for content and risk classification. No equivalent safety companion has been documented for Muse Glimmer.
- One safety layer, not the whole system
- Tune policy to the use case
- Monitor false positives and misses
Repoint every Llama link you hold
Meta’s developer estate moved again, and the redirect targets recorded last quarter are themselves stale now. www.llama.com/llama4/license/ and developer.meta.com/ai/llama4/license/ both issue a 302 to dev.meta.ai/llama/llama4/license. developer.meta.com/blog/ issues a 302 to developers.meta.com/blog/, with an s on developers. And llama.developer.meta.com/docs/llama-api-deprecation/ issues a 302 to dev.meta.ai/docs/llama-api-deprecation, which serves a page carrying no deprecation text at all. A redirect isn’t a guarantee the specific document survived.
· Observed October 1, 2026.
- Model pages, docs and the license: dev.meta.ai
- Developer blog: developers.meta.com/blog
- Business tooling posts: developers.facebook.com
- Repoint bookmarks, citations and contract annexes
Open models beyond the chat families
Meta’s open-model story is wider than Llama and Glimmer. On July 21 Meta described SAM 3 and DINOv3, both open source, deployed in SYNAPS-I, a Lawrence Berkeley led Department of Energy multi-lab project under the Genesis Mission. SAM 3.1 has since superseded SAM 3 in Meta’s model list, under the ID sam-3.1. That line is a real product family, not an experiment.
- Vision models, not chat models
- Fine-tuned across 300 A100 GPUs
- SAM 3.1 is the current version
The open-weight advantage appears only if the organization can operate it
A downloadable model buys you control, customization and portability. It also hands you a permanent job: serving, security and evaluation, forever. You wanted the weights, right? Then you own what comes with them. Two Meta open families are in play under different licenses, so the artifact you pin has to record which one you deployed. And if you stalled on Muse Glimmer, here’s the good news. You can specify it properly now. Model ID, weights repository, context window, architecture and runtimes are all published. One field is still blank. It’s the release date.
What you can pin on Muse Glimmer now
A pinned artifact needs a model ID, a weights location, a context configuration and a release date. Three of the four are published.
· Model ID: muse-glimmer in the Model API list, meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B as the weights repository. Weights: HuggingFace, with packaging for Ollama, llama.cpp, ExecuTorch, LM Studio and Unsloth Desktop. Context: 128K by default, longer supported. License: Apache 2.0.
· The release date is the one that’s still missing, and that’s Meta’s omission rather than a hidden page. Record your download timestamp and the repository revision hash instead, and say in the artifact record that Meta published no release date.
- Model ID published
- Weights location published
- Context window published
- Release date not establishable first-party
Where the hosted option now sits
Meta’s own endpoint serves Muse Spark, not Llama and not Glimmer, and Meta states that outright. So a hosted-versus-self-hosted comparison inside Meta’s estate is a comparison between different models, not different deployments of the same one. The status question is settled: the Model API is generally available globally. The cost question isn’t. No price renders on any Meta page, so the cost side of that comparison has to come from a quote.
- Hosted means Muse Spark only
- Generally available, not preview
- No readable price; get a quote before modeling total cost
The hosted track is multi-cloud now
Muse Spark 1.3 is available through Oracle Cloud AI Platform, and Google Cloud has it in private preview. Meta also names Fireworks, Together.AI and OpenRouter for Muse Glimmer. So “Meta runs no inference service for open weights” is still true, and “you can only get Muse Spark from Meta” isn’t. That matters for anyone with a cloud commitment they would rather spend than add a new vendor.
- Oracle Cloud AI Platform: generally available
- Google Cloud: private preview
- Check data terms per cloud, they are not Meta’s terms
Cloud and edge partners
Llama is available through model hosts, clouds and edge ecosystems. Muse Glimmer’s hosted partners are now named by Meta: Fireworks, Together.AI and OpenRouter. Ask any other vendor claiming to serve it exactly which weights they hold, which revision, and under which license.
- Avoid provider-specific lock-in
- Check quantization and context differences
- Document the deployed artifact
Eleven habits for keeping Meta’s tracks and names straight
Name the product, the model, the license and the access path. Precisely. That’s still the habit that matters most, and it got harder in September. Meta reuses the word Muse for an agent, a coding tool, a small-business product and a device. It publishes open weights under two licenses. And it now has an enterprise division you can’t price. So precision is the whole job.
Say which Muse you mean
On its own the word Muse now covers the model family, the consumer agent app, Muse Code, Muse for Small Business, Muse Charm and the Muse API. Name the thing. Muse Spark 1.3 is the hosted model. Muse Glimmer is the open model. Muse is the consumer agent. Meta AI is the in-app assistant, which isn’t branded Muse. Never write only “Muse.”
Name the license, not just “open”
Muse Glimmer is Apache 2.0. Llama 4 is the Llama Community License, with a user-count condition. Open weight isn’t one thing.
Use Muse Spark for distribution
Choose Meta’s hosted track when social, messaging, camera, voice or creator context is the advantage. It’s generally available globally now, so the availability objection is gone. The price objection isn’t.
Use open weights for control
Choose Glimmer or Llama when hosting, customization or data location is the requirement. And budget for the hosting Meta doesn’t provide.
Watch three hosts, not the old two
Point monitoring at about.fb.com/news, developers.meta.com/blog and dev.meta.ai. The old developer domains redirect. And ai.meta.com/blog has published nothing for 66 days, so treat quiet there as a channel fact, not a product fact.
Price the subscription
Meta One runs from $2.99 to $499 a month across nine tiers. Meta AI is still free for everyday use, so state which side of that line the client’s workflow falls on.
Match the context window to the job
Muse Glimmer is 128K by default, with longer supported but no stated ceiling. Scout is 10M. Those are different jobs, not a ranking. Test retrieval and reasoning at the real workload size on whichever one you pick.
Treat social grounding as biased
Public Meta content reveals perspectives, not a representative population.
Review before direct sharing
Generation-to-feed convenience needs a deliberate pause before publication. And the Muse agent now has connectors to payment, commerce and code systems, so the pause matters more.
Operate the open model
Pin, secure, evaluate and maintain every deployed artifact, and record which license it came under. For Muse Glimmer, record the repository revision too, because Meta publishes no release date.
Do not budget against the enterprise platform
Meta Enterprise Platform has a leader, a bundle and a strategic claim. It has no price, no tier and no date. Put it in the roadmap conversation, never in the cost model, until Meta publishes commercial terms.
Reach, personal context, paid tiers and two open licenses create different risk profiles
Meta’s risks don’t come in one shape. The consumer apps raise privacy, representation and publishing questions. The open weights hand safety, security and lifecycle work to whoever deploys them, under two different sets of terms. The Muse agent now reaches payment, commerce and code systems. And the loudest commercial news, a whole enterprise division, has no price, no tier and no date. So you’ll often decide with half the vendor facts. Name exactly which half is missing.
Meta Enterprise Platform has no commercial detail
This is the biggest gap in Meta’s AI estate. And it’s Meta’s omission, not a documentation problem. The September 28, 2026 announcement names a division, a leader and four bundled components. That’s it. No pricing, no tiers, no availability dates, no API specifications. Zuckerberg calls it the next major pillar of the business. That raises the stakes. It doesn’t fill the gap. So if your procurement process needs a Meta enterprise answer this quarter, give it the Model API plus Meta One, and note this one as pending.
Llama license: the 700 million user clause
Open weight isn’t the same as unrestricted open source. And this is the clause that decides it. Here it is in plain words. Did your products have over 700 million monthly active users in the month before the Llama 4 release date? Then you must ask Meta for a license. Meta can refuse. And until it says yes, you get no rights under the agreement at all. Muse Glimmer, under Apache 2.0, carries no equivalent condition.
· Section 2 of the Llama 4 Community License Agreement, verbatim: “If, on the Llama 4 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.”
· Sourcing note: the canonical agreement is at dev.meta.ai/llama/llama4/license, titled “Llama 4 Community License Agreement” and effective April 5, 2025, with the preamble and Section 1 readable there. This Section 2 text was transcribed from Meta’s official GitHub mirror of the llama-models repository. Read the clause on the canonical page before it goes into a contract.
Apache 2.0 is the exception, not a policy change
One Meta open model is now Apache 2.0. That doesn’t relicense Llama 4, and Meta has published nothing suggesting it will. So if a client says “Meta went permissive,” correct it. Meta published a permissive model beside a conditionally licensed family.
Muse Glimmer still has no release date
You can now specify everything else about the model: model ID, weights repository, 128K default context, Apache 2.0, multimodal architecture, named runtimes and hosted partners. The release date isn’t. No dated announcement exists on Meta’s newsroom, its AI blog or its developer blog. So you can’t put it on a timeline. That matters if you keep a version history or a change-control record. Use your own download timestamp and the repository revision instead, and say that’s what you did.
Meta Model API price is unreadable
The status question is settled. Meta says the Model API is generally available globally, with support and compliance for enterprise workloads. The cost question isn’t. Meta’s pricing route loads and shows no numbers at all. No per-token rate, no tier list, no free allowance. So your cost model for the hosted track has to come from a quote. And a proposal that prints a Meta token price is printing a guess.
Muse connectors are a new data surface
The Muse agent now connects to Walmart, Best Buy, American Eagle Outfitters, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Fanatics, Gap, Michael Kors, Sephora, Ulta, Wayfair, Shop Pay, PayPal, Expedia, Instacart, Notion, Granola, GitHub and Box. Meta also says Muse gets its own email address it can use to get things done. Payment rails, a code host, a document store and a mailbox, all reachable by an agent. Muse for Small Business adds Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Figma, Canva, Asana and Intuit QuickBooks, with a stated approval gate before anything publishes, sends or spends. Review the approval model before anyone in the organization connects a work account.
The hosted Llama API shutdown date is still unsourced
The July 6, 2026 shutdown date has no first-party citation. The deprecation document now redirects to dev.meta.ai/docs/llama-api-deprecation, which serves a page with no deprecation content on it. What’s new is a direct statement of absence: Meta says Llama models aren’t run for you through the Model API. That makes the shutdown far more likely and still doesn’t date it. So if an architecture decision depends on the date, verify it before the decision, not after.
The developer estate moved again
developer.meta.com and llama.developer.meta.com now redirect to dev.meta.ai, and developer.meta.com/blog redirects to developers.meta.com/blog. Those are new hosts, not new paths on old hosts. At least one documentation route under the old estate now lands on a page with none of its original content. So repoint every Meta reference in your procurement pack, contract annexes and internal wiki. And don’t read a redirect as proof the document survived.
Muse did not widen, and that is now a dated fact
The September 8, 2026 launch article was revised on September 30, 2026 and the availability language is unchanged: the US, on iOS, Android and muse.ai. Connect restated AI glasses as coming months rather than shipping them. Muse for Small Business is a separate product at US and Canada. So the rollout scope is confirmed static as of September 30, 2026, not merely unrevisited. State it with the date attached, because a single revision is the whole evidence base.
Meta One cost and limits
Nine tiers from $2.99 to $499 a month, global since September 15, 2026. Meta states Meta AI stays free for everyday use. But it doesn’t publish a readable definition of everyday use, or per-tier AI limits. So a client planning volume media generation should establish the ceiling inside the product before buying. Hearing Enhancement now rides on the plan too, which pulls a regulated capability into a consumer subscription decision.
Hardware dates are announcements, not shipments
Ray-Ban Meta Audio ships October 13, 2026 and Meta Adventurer launches October 23, 2026. Both are close enough to plan around. Meta VR Glasses is $1,299.99 in spring 2027, which is a season roughly six months out. Hearing Enhancement is “later in 2026” with no date. Muse Charm has no date, no price and no specification. Muse on glasses is “coming months.” Sort any hardware dependency into those buckets before it reaches a budget.
Features can be withdrawn
Muse Image shipped with public-profile mentions on July 7 and lost them on July 15. A shipped consumer AI feature can disappear in eight days, so don’t build a dependency on one.
Public-content bias
Groups, posts, Reels and profiles provide useful context without representing all users or reality. Forum, the Facebook Groups app Meta launched on September 29, 2026, adds an AI Ask feature that surfaces existing group posts and comments, which is the same signal with a new front door.
Minors and duty of care
Parental alerts for teen distress reached the US, UK, Australia and Canada in July, with global coverage stated for year end. Threads added parental supervision for teens in the Asia-Pacific region on September 15, 2026. Coverage is uneven and expanding region by region, so check the specific market rather than the headline.
Direct sharing
The shortest path from generation to publication increases accidental or insufficiently reviewed output.
Intention is not capability
The August 10 letter promised to resume open source releases, and that promise has been kept. Its other promises haven’t: an exceptionally capable personal agent for everyone, and a fully private mode where even Meta can’t see or grant access to your information. Neither exists in a shipped Meta product today. So quote the letter as direction. Don’t enter it in a capability matrix.
Model operations
Self-hosting transfers serving, logging, patching, abuse controls and evaluation to the organization, for either open family.
Roadmap speculation
Don’t publish codenames, projected dates or unreleased models as product facts. No Llama 4.1, 4.5 or 5 exists on any first-party source. Video generation ships inside Meta One, but Meta attributes it to Muse models as a family and publishes no video model ID, so don’t call it Muse Video. Muse Charm is a name with nothing behind it yet. And Meta Enterprise Platform is a division, not a purchasable product.
Where these facts come from
One source does most of the work: the end-to-end Connect recap on Meta’s developer blog, September 24, 2026. It dates Muse Spark 1.3, puts the Meta Model API at general availability and takes Muse Code out of beta. The enterprise division, Muse for Small Business and the hardware prices come from dated newsroom posts. Then there’s a second group, the pages on dev.meta.ai. They carry no date at all. But they’re the only record of model IDs, weights locations and context windows, so each one is stamped with the day it was read. And two facts still have no citation anywhere: the July 6, 2026 hosted Llama API shutdown date, and Muse Glimmer’s release date.
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