# TechCrunch — Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder

- Company: TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-12T17:56:56+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/12/meta-releases-its-first-frontier-model-muse-wonder/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/19989-meta-releases-its-first-frontier-model-muse-wonder
- Subject: Reporting
- Models affected: Muse Wonder, Muse Wonder Full
- Pricing: Wonder: $4.00 per million input tokens, $20.00 per million output tokens. Wonder Full: not served through API, only available to Muse Code subscribers.

Meta's Superintelligence Lab released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its first frontier models, achieving benchmark scores comparable to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra. The models emphasize 'active memory' for long-term user context retention, with Wonder priced at $4.00 per million input tokens and $20.00 per million output tokens via the Meta Model API. Wonder Full is exclusive to Muse Code subscribers and not available through the API.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/12/meta-releases-its-first-frontier-model-muse-wonder/:

> Accessed through the Meta Model API, Wonder will cost $4.00 per million input tokens and $20.00 per million output tokens, making it roughly equivalent in cost to GPT-6 Sol or Opus 5.5.

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