Meta Muse Code: New AI Coding Agent Takes on Rivals

Meta is rolling out its first AI coding agent, Muse Code. This new tool aims to challenge leading AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI. Muse Code allows people to build apps and manage AI-powered digital agents for software development. Alexandr Wang, Meta's AI chief, describes it as a terminal coding agent that can handle complete software engineering tasks. It plans changes, writes code, and validates results. Muse Code works with Meta's latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.2, which specializes in coding. The new model was developed alongside Muse Code to improve overall coding performance. Developers can access Muse Code through a pay-as-you-go option, costing $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens. A contributor tier offers a significantly lower cost. What's interesting is Meta is differentiating Muse Code by price rather than bleeding-edge capabilities compared to competitors. This could impact how developers choose their AI coding tools.