Meta has introduced its first AI coding agent, Muse Code, as the company expands its push into developer tools and intensifies competition with OpenAI and Anthropic.
The preview release marks the latest product from Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang, who joined the company to accelerate its AI strategy. Muse Code is designed to automate software engineering tasks, from planning and writing code to testing and validating results.
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“You can install it with one command and then use it to take on complete software engineering tasks across a wide variety of use cases,” Wang said.
A New Revenue Opportunity
The launch comes as Meta looks to generate new revenue from AI while continuing to invest heavily in data centres and computing infrastructure. The company recently increased spending on AI, even as weaker guidance and lower free cash flow weighed on investor sentiment.
Muse Code joins a growing market for AI programming assistants that includes Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex. Like its rivals, the tool allows developers to build applications within a single interface while using AI agents to support different stages of software development.
The coding assistant runs on Meta’s latest Muse Spark 1.2 model, which was developed alongside Muse Code to improve programming performance. Although Wang did not disclose adoption figures, he said demand for the Muse Spark family has been “strong.”
Competing On Price
Rather than focusing solely on performance, Meta is positioning Muse Code as a lower-cost alternative to competing AI coding tools.
Developers can access the service through a pay-as-you-go model, alongside a lower-priced contributor tier for users who agree to share data that helps improve the underlying models. Meta is also introducing a zero-data-retention option for enterprise customers, allowing developers to use the platform without their data being stored for model training.
Muse Code will be available through Meta’s developer platform and via OpenRouter, which hosts AI models from multiple providers.
The launch highlights Meta’s broader strategy of expanding beyond consumer AI products into enterprise software, where demand for coding assistants is growing rapidly and competition among major AI companies continues to intensify.
