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Artificial Analysis: Muse Spark 1.3 hits Index 62 with leading agentic cost efficiency

Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) benchmarks Meta Muse Spark 1.3: the xhigh variant scores 61 on the Intelligence Index (up 4 from 1.2’s 57), while limited-preview max reaches 62, trailing only Claude Fable/Opus lines. Gains are mainly agentic and scientific; xhigh is the lowest cost-per-task among models at 59+ (~$0.55) at unchanged $1.25/$4.25 per 1M tokens.

Key Takeaways

  • xhigh scores 61; limited-preview max hits 62—up from Muse Spark 1.2’s 57.
  • Agentic gains on Tau3-Bench Banking, Terminal-Bench, and GDPval; max leads Banking-class results.
  • Cost: xhigh ~$0.55/task, lowest among 59+ Index models; 1M context, multimodal, via Meta API / Muse Code.
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Composio Evaluates 5 Open-Weight Models on 30 Multi-Step Agent Tasks: Flash Models Lead in ROI

Composio benchmarked 5 open-weight models across 30 multi-step agent tasks, finding GLM-5.3 Flash and DeepSeek-V4 Flash delivered the highest cost efficiency at a fraction of full-model pricing.

Key Takeaways

  • Flash-class models achieve near parity with full-scale weights at approximately 75% lower inference cost;
  • Multi-application tool orchestration remains the primary failure mode across all open-source models;
  • Provides empirical cost-per-success metrics to guide architectural selection for enterprise agent deployments.
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DeepSeek-V4 Preview is live and open-sourced with 1M context and frontier agentic coding SOTA

DeepSeek launched and open-sourced V4 Preview: V4-Pro (1.6T total / 49B active) rivaling closed-source frontier models, and V4-Flash (284B / 13B active) for cost efficiency. The model achieves open-source SOTA on agentic coding with default 1M context and day-one integration across Claude Code and OpenCode.

Key Takeaways

  • V4-Pro features a 1.6T/49B MoE architecture with open-source SOTA on agentic software development.
  • 1M context window is now the standard default across official DeepSeek web and API endpoints.
  • API is fully OpenAI/Anthropic compatible, providing drop-in integration for coding agents.
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