Meta Releases Muse Image and Muse Video, AI Tools That Generate GIFs and Video With Audio
Meta's launch of a tool-calling image generator and a video-with-audio model pushes AI generation deeper into its social ecosystem, directly competing with OpenAI's gpt-image-2 and Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.0.
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Meta announced Muse Image and Muse Video on July 7, 2026. Muse Image is available now, generating images, GIF animations, and editing photos with tool-calling abilities like QR code creation. It ranks second in text-to-image and image editing Arena rankings. Muse Video, an initial preview, generates video with audio and ranks third in text-to-video. Both are rolling out across Meta's platforms.
Muse Image can call internal tools during generation, such as a QR code creator, to embed functional codes into images. It also supports GIF animation by planning each frame from a text prompt. In human-evaluated Arena rankings, Muse Image placed second behind OpenAI's gpt-image-2 for text-to-image and second for image editing. Muse Video, still in preview, generates clips with synchronized audio and ranks third in text-to-video, ahead of Alibaba's HappyHorse 1.0. Both models are being integrated into Meta AI, Instagram Stories, WhatsApp, and soon Facebook.
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