With Mark Zuckerberg counting on Meta’s new artificial intelligence model, Muse Spark, to revive his company’s standing in the booming AI market, guidance and commentary are going to be of heightened importance following first-quarter earnings on Wednesday.

That’s because the new model, formerly codenamed Avocado, was unveiled in early April, just as the second quarter was getting underway. Muse Spark marks a turning point in Meta’s AI strategy, moving it away from the previous Llama models, which were released for free to the open-source community.

Meta indicated that it eventually wants to make money from the technology by offering paid access to developers, similar to the approach being pursued by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. What’s…