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Meta shipped Muse Image, its Superintelligence Labs' first image model.

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Muse Image, from Alexandr Wang's lab, generates and edits from text, writes and runs code to produce accurate plots and QR codes, and searches the web to ground outputs. It launched free in Meta AI, WhatsApp, and Instagram Stories, and immediately drew pushback for training on users' personal photos. A Muse Video model is planned next.

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