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

Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model, describing it as "the most capable US open-weight model to date" and "the first model in its class" that can run on a desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework. Despite typically being rivals, Meta and Apple collaborated on the launch and publicly supported each other. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg praised the collaboration on X, and new Apple CEO John Ternus replied with congratulations, highlighting the efficiency of running such a large model on a desk. Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang told Axios that the companies had been collaborating for several months. The model is natively multimodal with 816 billion total parameters and excels at long-horizon tasks, complex software engineering, and multi-step reasoning. Apple also published a technical post about MLX and the new model.

(Source：The Verge)