Meta Spent $14 Billion on a New AI Team and Their First Model Is Getting Roasted on Reddit

Meta just dropped Muse Spark, their first AI model in over a year, and the reaction from the developer community has been... not great. This is the model that was supposed to justify Mark Zuckerberg's insane spending spree — $14.3 billion to hire Alexandr Wang from Scale AI, hundreds of millions in pay packages for individual engineers, and somewhere between $115 billion and $135 billion in total capital expenditure planned for 2026. Thats not a typo. Over a hundred billion dollars. And the first thing their fancy new "Superintelligence Labs" team shipped is a model that Reddit users are saying mixes up languages mid-conversation and uses your location data for story settings nobody asked for. Ok so let me back up because the context here matters a lot. Last year Meta released Llama 4 and it was pretty much a disaster. One of the most widely read initial reviews said the model felt "entirely lost" and by mid-May Business Insider was reporting a "muted reception" and poor user adoption.