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Pelicans: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/8/muse-spark/

I also had a poke around with the tools exposed on 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.

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

I have a feeling it won't be this exact model, but rather smaller distilled variants, similar to the gemma line

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.

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...

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

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

Gemini 3.1 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/

> 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.

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