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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, runnable on two Apple Mac Studios
Key points
- Meta says Muse Spark Open is its most capable US open-weight model to date, with 816 billion total parameters.
- The model is described as natively multimodal and aimed at long-horizon tasks, software engineering and multi-step reasoning.
- Meta says it runs on a desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework.
- Meta and Apple, usually rivals, collaborated on the launch over several months, according to Axios, and Apple published a technical post on MLX.
Why it matters for marketers: Teams with Apple hardware may be able to run a large open model locally instead of relying on cloud APIs, which could change cost and privacy planning.
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