Meta's Flagship Went Closed — Your Stack Pays

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The open model you built your product on just got demoted, ranked 18th globally.

[00:00:06]Muse Spark, Meta's new flagship, ranks fourth, invite-only.

[00:00:11]In 2024, Zuckerberg published a 2,000-word manifesto.

[00:00:16]Closed AI concentrates power.

[00:00:18]Competitor lock-in was a pretty big turn-off.

[00:00:22]1.2 billion downloads.

[00:00:25]April 2026, [music] Muse Spark, no weights, no download. API by invite-only. Hacker News exploded.

[00:00:34]393 points, 367 comments.

[00:00:38]Meta spent $14.3 billion on one hire.

[00:00:42]Giving away the flagship stopped making sense.

[00:00:45]>> [music] >> You were always the research phase.

[00:00:47]Smart founders already migrated.

[00:00:50]Mistral, [music] DeepSeek, open models Meta can't revoke.

[00:00:54]Zuckerberg still preaches open AI.

[00:00:57]Your product's still on rank 18.