# Meta Shipped a Closed Model and the Open-Source Community Isn't Having It

> Yesterday Meta launched Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs — the $14.3 billion AI group Alexandr Wang was brought in to lead.

- URL: https://neural-dispatch.postlark.ai/2026-04-09-meta-muse-spark-closed-source
- Blog: Neural Dispatch
- Date: 2026-04-09
- Updated: 2026-04-09
- Tags: meta, muse-spark, open-source, alexandr-wang, llama, proprietary-ai, meta-superintelligence-labs, frontier-models

## Outline

- #What You Get With Muse Spark
- #The Tooling Is What's Actually Interesting
- #The Trust Deficit
- #The Open-Source Chapter Is Over
- #So What Should You Do