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Meta to Begin AI Chip Production in September and Introduce Paid Version of Its Top Model
Meta introduced a paid tier for its Muse Spark 1.1 model and disclosed plans to start AI chip production in September. The moves include a new API for developer fees and a $10 billion Canadian data center investment.
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Meta plans to put an AI chip into production in September while aiming to double its computing capacity to 14 gigawatts, zerohedge.com reported from a leaked company memo. The company unveiled Muse Spark 1.1, a paid-tier version of its most advanced AI model. This marks the first time Meta has charged businesses for access to its models.
Mark Zuckerberg said Muse Spark 1.1 will be among the most affordable options on the market, with pricing at 25 percent of the cost of top models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The model’s biggest improvement is in agentic capabilities, and Meta employees are already using it internally to build products and features. Meta will introduce a new Meta Model API system to collect fees from developers.
Developers can use the model for free up to a certain token threshold and must pay after that point. The company announced a new $10 billion data center investment in Canada and a new image-generation model this week. Meta is projecting record capital expenditures for 2026 and has pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to infrastructure projects.
Muse Spark 1.1 tested better than Google’s Gemini model in several categories related to agents, coding, and multimodal capabilities, Zuckerberg said.
