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Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?

Sep 25, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT

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When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s ear

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The article offers no quantitative performance figures, no dates for the alleged releases, no statements from Meta, Anthropic or OpenAI, and no explanation of what “outpacing” entails. It also omits any discussion of the broader AI development landscape that would contextualise such rapid releases.