SAN FRANCISCO: 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.

“Muse Spark was our first family of models, and now Muse Wonder is a much larger and more advanced class of models that brings us to the frontier,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on X.

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.

In June 2025, the company made a $14 billion investment in Scale AI, an AI startup based in San Francisco, and poached its co-founder Alexandr Wang as part of the deal.

Zuckerberg subsequently made Wang the company’s chief AI officer overseeing its newly formed division called Superintelligence Labs.

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.

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.

Published in Dawn, October 13th, 2026