Meta released Muse Image, the debut image model from Alexandr Wang's Superintelligence Labs, rolling out across Meta AI with strong opening rankings on Arena’s leaderboards. Muse Image combines with Meta’s Muse Spark to leverage agentic capabilities such as web search and tool use, and edits its own outputs for better results. The model slots into the No. 2 spot across Arena’s text-to-image and editing leaderboards, trailing only OpenAI’s GPT Image 2. It is free inside Meta AI and rolling out across Instagram and WhatsApp, with Facebook, Messenger, and the Meta ads platform getting it at a later date. Meta also teased a Muse Video model coming soon, with its preview ranking No. 3 on the Arena leaderboard behind Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni Flash. Separately, Beijing is reportedly discussing rules that would limit use of the country’s strongest models outside of China, a shift that could turn popular, low-cost systems from ByteDance, Alibaba, and Zhipu AI into a layer of national tech co.