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Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says the company has reached the frontier of artificial intelligence with its new Muse Wonder model, which will be offered as a closed, paid product for businesses. He also rejected calls for an industry-wide slowdown, saying individual labs can manage AI risks with conventional safeguards as Meta continues investing heavily in models, infrastructure and talent.

The model was released on Monday. Speaking with the Financial Times, Zuckerberg said it was “going to allow much more sophisticated behaviours that are at the frontier of what is being done in the AI field.” He said reaching that point required substantial computing power and investment, along with rigorous scientific work by the team over an extended period.

Meta said Muse Wonder outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 and Fable 5.1, as well as OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, on some technical benchmarks. The company said the model can handle complex tasks, including “understanding a lease to making sense of financial or health information.”

Meta plans to sell its best versions directly to businesses rather than release them openly. The approach puts the company in competition with Anthropic and OpenAI for corporate AI contracts and will test Meta’s ambitions in that market. Zuckerberg indicated that the company’s investment will continue, saying it was “already working on the next step up.” He added that model development would “probably feel like it'll go quite a bit faster from here.”

Zuckerberg also dismissed growing concerns that AI could advance soon beyond human control. He declined to give his own estimate of “P(doom),” a Silicon Valley term for the probability that AI will cause mass destruction, and argued that responsibility for safety should rest with each AI lab.

“I'm much closer to the belief that AI is a technology that can be engineered with normal guardrails and built responsibly than the anthropomorphic vision of AI, which is that it is just going to go do its own thing,” Zuckerberg said. He has previously opposed calls for a slowdown from AI lab leaders, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.

Zuckerberg also played a key role in developing U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House “Accord on Super Intelligence,” which sets out principles for industry self-regulation. Critics say the accord falls well short of a formal global system for AI governance.