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Pelicans: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/8/muse-spark/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/8/muse-spark/ I also had a poke around with the tools exposed on

by simonw 7mo ago

Pelicans: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/8/muse-spark/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/8/muse-spark/ I also had a poke around with the tools exposed on https://meta.ai/ https://meta.ai/ - they're pretty cool, there's a Code Interpreter Python container thing now and they also have an image analysis tool called "container.visual_grounding" which is a lot of fun.

wsgeorge 7mo ago
Alexandr Wang suggesting this might be open-weights/source in the future gives me hope. Hopefully they stay on this path.
- lemonish97 7mo ago
  I have a feeling it won't be this exact model, but rather smaller distilled variants, similar to the gemma line
  - sbinnee 7mo ago
    It is fair to think so because that is what everyone is doing. But being Meta and considering Llama, if MSL is going to keep releasing models and wants to join back the AI war, they may actually open weights just to get more attention. Once they establish a sizable community, they can start guarding their frontier models.
sbinnee 7mo ago
> but you can try it out today on meta.ai (Facebook or Instagram login required). I guess I will have to wait. I hope at least soon it will be available on Openrouter. Overall, I am really excited to try it out.
nickvec 7mo ago
The only benchmark I care about! Just curious Simon - which model do you think has created the best pelican riding a bicycle thus far?
- simonw 7mo ago
  Gemini 3.1 Pro: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/ But GLM-5.1 has the best NORTH VIRGINIA OPOSSUM ON AN E-SCOOTER: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/glm-51/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/glm-51/
sunaookami 7mo ago
Seems like not all tools are available everywhere? Don't have access to visual_grounding sadly, only these: https://embed.fbsbx.com/playables/view/4208761039384112/?ext=1783498819&hash=Q92gDAFVTWISwzfkifocWWYdoifk https://embed.fbsbx.com/playables/view/4208761039384112/?ext...
- simonw 7mo ago
  Interesting, you got some I didn't: animate image, create video and get reference audio.

by simonw 7mo ago

wsgeorge 7mo ago

Alexandr Wang suggesting this might be open-weights/source in the future gives me hope. Hopefully they stay on this path.

lemonish97 7mo ago
I have a feeling it won't be this exact model, but rather smaller distilled variants, similar to the gemma line
- sbinnee 7mo ago
  It is fair to think so because that is what everyone is doing. But being Meta and considering Llama, if MSL is going to keep releasing models and wants to join back the AI war, they may actually open weights just to get more attention. Once they establish a sizable community, they can start guarding their frontier models.

sbinnee 7mo ago

> but you can try it out today on meta.ai (Facebook or Instagram login required). I guess I will have to wait. I hope at least soon it will be available on Openrouter. Overall, I am really excited to try it out.

nickvec 7mo ago

The only benchmark I care about! Just curious Simon - which model do you think has created the best pelican riding a bicycle thus far?

simonw 7mo ago
Gemini 3.1 Pro: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/ But GLM-5.1 has the best NORTH VIRGINIA OPOSSUM ON AN E-SCOOTER: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/glm-51/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/glm-51/

sunaookami 7mo ago

Seems like not all tools are available everywhere? Don't have access to visual_grounding sadly, only these: https://embed.fbsbx.com/playables/view/4208761039384112/?ext=1783498819&hash=Q92gDAFVTWISwzfkifocWWYdoifk https://embed.fbsbx.com/playables/view/4208761039384112/?ext...

simonw 7mo ago
Interesting, you got some I didn't: animate image, create video and get reference audio.