Meta Just Released Muse Spark FOR FREE! OpenAI and Anthropic Should Be Scared.

Meta took its own frontier model family, Muse Spark, and released an open-weight version you can download and run yourself. That is a problem for every lab whose whole business is renting you their model. So I put Muse Spark Open head to head with Jah 6.0, the model my team at RMDW built. Same 8 real business jobs, scored by code. Here's what happened, and where the money in AI is actually going. Free AI assessment for your business (about 10 minutes): https://rmdw.ai/?utm_source=youtube Become an RMDW Insider ($4.99/mo): every essay 24 hours early, a vote on the next topic, your name in the credits: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvZNH8z8q38CJ3Cqe1PMLCw/join Follow me on X: https://x.com/richardbechols CHAPTERS 0:00 Meta just opened up Muse Spark 0:56 Chapter 1: Meta opened the gates 2:52 Chapter 2: The market is already nervous 4:04 Chapter 3: Every closed lab just got a problem 6:28 Chapter 4: So I tested it 8:49 Chapter 5: Models are a commodity 9:59 Chapter 6: Where the money actually is 10:54 Chapter 7: What this means for you THE FACE-OFF (Oct 15, 2026) Same 8 jobs (bug fix, feature, web task, messy bank export with an exact answer key, invoice with hidden tests, and more), 2 tries each, run through the same app (KiyomiKode Desktop), scored by scripts, not by the models or by me. Jah 6.0: 15/16 passed, about 13 s per typical job (runs on RMDW's own hardware) Muse Spark Open: 15/16 passed, about 27 s (reached through a shared hosted service) Step 5 (StepFun): 16/16 passed, about 61 s (shared hosted service) SOURCES Muse Spark Open (816B total, 42B active, license terms): Meta AI Research blog and the Hugging Face model card (Oct 15, 2026) Running it on two 512GB Mac Studios, about 1TB of memory: Engadget (Oct 15, 2026); Apple CEO John Ternus quote: MacRumors (Oct 15, 2026) Meta kept its best model closed: Bloomberg (Oct 15, 2026); Muse Wonder launch: TechCrunch (Oct 12, 2026) Korea circuit breaker, SK Hynix and Samsung: IBTimes / Korea Herald (Oct 15, 2026); Sandisk down 18% this week: Motley Fool (Oct 15, 2026) GPT-6.1 Astra shelved: The Hacker News citing WSJ (Sep 29, 2026); DevDay: NBC News (Sep 29, 2026) OpenAI revenue vs earlier signal, 77% run-rate growth: Reuters via Investing.com citing the FT (Oct 8, 2026) Eight states sue OpenAI: CNBC (Oct 14, 2026); executive departures: Yahoo Finance (Oct 14, 2026) Open models about 4 months behind closed: Epoch AI; local AI downloads 5x last year: NVIDIA (Oct 13, 2026) GPT-6.1 Sol "near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price": OpenAI Accenture $22.2B new bookings in one quarter: Accenture Q4 FY26 earnings release (Oct 1, 2026) Only 28% of organizations have quantified AI ROI: Komprise survey via GlobeNewswire (Oct 15, 2026) RMDW = Real-world Models, Data and Workflows. AI is about results, not prompts. CREDITS News and company footage used briefly, muted, for commentary and news under fair use. Logos are trademarks of their owners, shown for commentary. KiyomiKode Desktop footage: RMDW. #AI #Meta #MuseSpark #OpenAI #Anthropic