Meta on Monday unveiled two new “frontier” artificial intelligence (AI) models called Wonder and Wonder Full, which the company claims perform at a level comparable to that of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.
Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to compete with leading AI labs, particularly OpenAI and Anthropic, over the past year or so amid a race to win over customers and diversify beyond advertising, from which it has historically derived most of its revenue.
Wonder is Meta’s first new model since April, when it launched a frontier model called Spark, marking a departure from its open-source model known as Llama which lagged behind the rest of the industry. The new models can be used in Meta’s new personal agent app, known as Muse, for paid subscribers only for now. In a blog post, Meta touted so-called benchmarking data from an independent firm called Artificial Analysis which appears to show that Meta’s newest Wonder models outperform its own previous models, Spark, as well as various models developed by Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.
Wonder is “our largest and most capable model yet” and “rivals the big (boys),” Wang posted on X, presumably referring to leading labs OpenAI and Anthropic.
