Apple and Meta team up to make Muse AI model run on Mac computers
Meta says the 816-billion-parameter model is built for coding and agents, and its weights are available under a license with limited commercial use.
- On Thursday, Meta and Apple revealed a collaboration enabling developers to run Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight AI model, on high-end Mac Studio computers, marking a rare public partnership.
- Meta AI Chief Alexandr Wang noted that Apple's unified memory architecture allows the M5 Ultra's integrated GPU to utilize up to 512 GB per machine, enabling two Mac Studios to function as one supercomputer.
- Designed for complex software engineering and long-horizon tasks, the model is available under the Muse Model License, which allows free internal use but requires companies earning more than $20 million annually to sign a separate agreement.
- A single Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra chip and 256GB of memory costs at least $10,799, requiring users to pair multiple devices to run the full 816-billion-parameter model locally.
- This alliance signals a strategic shift in Silicon Valley, as Apple seeks to strengthen its AI chip capabilities against Nvidia, while Meta positions Muse Spark Open as the most capable U.S. open-weight model to date.
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Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, Optimized to Run on Mac Studio With M5 Ultra
Meta released Muse Spark Open on Oct. 15, calling it the most capable U.S. open-weight model. The 816B-parameter multimodal model was optimized with Apple's MLX to run on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios, though the 512 GB configuration it needs isn't on sale yet.
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Meta released a new version of its Muse Spark LLM on Thursday. As its name indicates, the big news about Muse Spark Open is that it’s an open-weight model. Rather than being offered solely as a cloud service, it’s publicly available for anyone to run on their own hardware. With 816 billion total parameters and a 1-million-token context window, it’s the U.S.’s most capable open-weight model, according to Meta. As I wrote in a recent feature, Meta…
The owner of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram pointed out that Muse Spark Open is also "optimized" to run Apple's advanced M5 Ultra chips, which points to an unusual partnership between the two technology giants.
The U.S. company Meta launched a new model of open-weight artificial intelligence called Muse Spark Open, characterized by its ability to process texts and images and carry out complex programming tasks, with the potential to operate locally on MAC machines from Apple, but requiring considerable computer resources and memory.
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