Mark Zuckerberg posted on X for the first time in three years on July 9, using his @finkd handle to announce Muse Spark 1.1, a new coding AI model built into Meta AI through the company’s Model API. The launch arrives after Meta laid off roughly 8,000 employees during April and May of 2026, a restructuring designed to clear the decks for an all-in bet on artificial intelligence. Meta has committed to projected expenditures in the range of $125 billion to $145 billion on AI infrastructure and models for 2026. Zuckerberg acknowledged during an internal town hall that AI agent development progress has “not really accelerated” over the past four months. No significant price movement in Meta stock followed in the days after the announcement. Meta’s massive infrastructure buildout competes for the same GPU capacity and data center resources that power crypto mining and blockchain validation networks, putting upward pressure on hardware costs. Meta has fully pivoted away from blockchain, abandoning its crypto-native ambitions. Muse Spark 1.1 competes with offerings from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, and the new Model API integration suggests Meta wants developers building on its stack.