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

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. The comments come as Meta launched two new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, on October 12, 2026. They put Meta in direct competition with OpenAI and Anthropic, the two labs most often treated as the pace-setters in frontier AI. 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. 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. The leadership behind the push was expensive to assemble. Alexandr Wang serves as Meta’s chief AI officer, and Nat Friedman runs AI products. Both joined on nine-figure compensation packages. The spending side of the equation Meta is projected to spend...