Alexandr Wang

New Capabilities

Directs model development that powers Muse; announced new Muse features at Connect

Meta released Muse, its personal AI agent, to US users on September 8. By October 20 it had 10.9 million downloads in its first 40 days, 10.2 million of them in the US, and at its September 23 Connect conference Meta added Walmart, Sephora and Shopify as retail partners.

Updated 2 days ago

New Capabilities

Delivered Muse Spark (April), Muse Spark 1.1 and Meta Compute (July), and Muse Wonder (October), now ranked No. 2 on frontier benchmarks

For three years, Meta staked its AI strategy on open-source; the Llama series became the industry's most widely used open-weight model family. That ended April 8, 2026: Meta released Muse Spark from its new Superintelligence Labs and kept it closed, the first product of Alexandr Wang's rebuild.

Updated Oct 15

New Capabilities

As of August 2026: Delivered Muse Spark in April 2026; operating alongside a parallel Applied AI Engineering unit reporting to Meta's CTO, limiting his exclusive oversight of AI development

Meta shipped Muse Spark, code-named Avocado, in April 2026—its first proprietary foundation model and a ground-up departure from the Llama architecture. The model ranked fourth on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index at launch, behind rivals at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but Meta's stock rose about 10% in the five days after release.

Updated Aug 1

Money Moves

As of May 2026: Leading Meta Superintelligence Labs; absorbing transferred engineers into Applied AI organization

Meta will cut 8,000 jobs on May 20 and scrap 6,000 open roles it had planned to fill. HR head Janelle Gale framed the layoffs as the price of Meta's $145 billion AI infrastructure bill, with more cuts planned for the second half of 2026.

Updated May 13