Meta chases OpenAI, Anthropic with new AI coding app
Meta has launched 'Muse Code,' an agentic coding tool designed to automate complex software engineering tasks, as it seeks to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. This move is part of a broader industry trend where major tech companies are investing heavily in AI infrastructure to capture the growing market for automated developer tools.
Why it matters
It highlights the intense competition among big tech firms to monetize AI through specialized enterprise software tools.
Meta entered the race for automated coding tools on Wednesday when it announced a new app for developers of artificial intelligence products, as it competes with other major AI labs for customers and revenue.
Dubbed Muse Code, Meta said in a blog post that the new product is an agentic coding tool that can perform "complex software engineering tasks" with large amounts of data, including planning, writing and validating code.
Agentic tools are software applications which are programmed to handle tasks without human supervision, though often someone will still make the final call on decisions or supervise the execution of tasks.
Muse Code launched in beta, or in a preview mode.
Meta also released an updated version of its flagship model, known as Spark, which it unveiled in April.
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