Benchmark Almanac

OptimBench

Muse Spark 1.3 64.2% Only in system cards

Agents solve optimization engineering tasks. Part of Meta's recursive-improvement suite and graded programmatically.

In-house Meta evaluation. The tasks are not public.

Made by Meta Machine learning engineering Tasks kept private Last in a system card Oct 2026 Last model added Oct 2026
Level
Research frontier Researchers, on open problems or tasks that take days
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Agent task Many steps in a terminal, browser, desktop, app, game or robot.
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Model scored in lab cards
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System card reports it, from 1 lab

Muse Spark 1.3 leads with 64.2%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Muse Spark 1.3 64.2%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Muse Spark 1.3 64.2% Oct 2026 Model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2027 Near the ceiling (85%) Muse Spark 1.3 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2027 Near the ceiling (85%) Muse Spark 1.3

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
23 Oct 2026 Muse Spark 1.3 system card 64.2 OptimBench, Muse Spark 1.3 (Helpful) (Table 1, Table 5) AI R&D risk

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