Meta unveils frontier models as battle with ChatGPT and Claude heats up

Meta has unveiled two new "frontier" artificial intelligence models named Wonder and Wonder Full, claiming the systems perform at levels comparable to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude as the tech giant accelerates efforts to diversify beyond advertising revenue."Muse Spark was our first family of models, and now Muse Wonder is a much larger and more advanced class of models that brings us to the frontier," Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote on the X platform.The release marks Meta's latest aggressive push under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, whom Zuckerberg recruited following a $14 billion investment in San Francisco startup Scale AI in June 2025 to head its Superintelligence Labs division.Wonder, which succeeds the earlier Spark model and departs from the open-source Llama lineage, will soon be available exclusively to paying subscribers…