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Meta launches Muse Spark Open for Macs
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- →Sets a new benchmark for local inference on Apple Silicon with an 816B parameter model.
- →Demonstrates practical agentic capabilities like coding fixes and video editing on desktop hardware.
- →Highlights the growing viability of open-weight models as alternatives to proprietary cloud APIs.
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion parameter model optimized for Apple Silicon devices. The model features a 1 million token context window and is natively multimodal, supporting complex coding and agentic tasks. It requires at least 1 terabyte of RAM to run locally, making the M5 Ultra Mac Studio the primary target hardware. Meta has made the model available via API platforms and demonstrated its utility in coding fixes and video editing workflows.
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