Meta has officially launched Muse Image, the first image generation model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, marking another major milestone in the company’s AI strategy. Muse Image is designed to do far more than generate pictures from text. Working alongside the Muse Spark reasoning model, it can interpret complex prompts, combine multiple uploaded photos, edit images through simple sketches or annotations, and even search the web when additional context is needed. The broader significance is what makes this announcement interesting. The AI race is no longer centered on standalone chatbots or isolated image generators. Every frontier lab is moving toward unified multimodal systems capable of reasoning, planning, creating, and taking actions across text, images, audio, video, and external tools. Meta’s advantage has always been distribution. With billions of users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, every improvement to its AI stack can immediately reach on...