Meta’s Muse Spark Open model runs on Mac Studios with Apple’s help

Meta and Apple, usually rivals, worked together so Meta’s newest open model runs on Mac desktops instead of cloud servers.

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At a glance

total parameters
816B
M5 Ultra Mac Studios to run it
2
What’s new
Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model so far, and the first of its class to run on a desktop setup, using Apple’s MLX framework.
Who it affects
Developers and companies that want to run large models on their own hardware rather than rent them in the cloud.

Meta says the natively multimodal model is strong at long tasks, complex coding and multi-step reasoning. Apple published a technical post on running it and two other open models with MLX, its machine learning framework for Apple Silicon. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO John Ternus both praised the collaboration on X.

Why it matters

A frontier-scale open model running on two desktop machines brings serious AI work out of the data centre and onto local hardware, with privacy and cost benefits. It also strengthens Apple’s case for Macs as AI workstations and shows rivals cooperating when it helps both.

Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs

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