Meta has introduced Muse Spark Open, a multimodal AI model featuring 816 billion parameters. The company describes it as the most capable open-weight model from the United States to date.
The model is designed to handle complex software engineering, multi-step reasoning, and long-horizon tasks. Meta claims it is the first in its class capable of running on desktop hardware.
To achieve this, the system requires two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios utilizing the latest MLX framework. Apple released a technical document detailing the integration of MLX with the new model.
Meta and Apple collaborated over several months to optimize the performance of Muse Spark Open on Apple Silicon. Executives from both companies publicly confirmed the partnership on social media.
