Meta’s Muse Wonder outperforms competitors in key AI benchmarks

Meta wants back in the frontier AI conversation, and its latest models suggest the company is serious about it. On October 12, 2026, Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, two models built for personal and professional work. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, Muse Wonder Full scored 56 at maximum reasoning effort. That makes it the second highest-rated model on the index, behind only Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5. How the Muse Wonder models stack up The scores show a clear pecking order within Meta’s new lineup. Muse Wonder Full posted 56 on the index at max effort, while the standard Muse Wonder came in at 52. The bigger number for Meta watchers is the jump from its previous model. Muse Spark 1.3 scored 48 on the same index, so Muse Wonder Full represents an 8-point improvement. Muse Wonder Full also ranked in the top three on six of the ten evaluations that make up the Intelligence Index. Its strongest showings came in agentic tasks and coding benchmarks. According to the post announcing the results, Muse Wonder outperforms Claude Opus 5.5 on most benchmarks. It also reportedly surpasses OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 on coding, lega...