Meta and Apple Collaborate to Run Muse AI Models on Macs

Meta has introduced Muse Spark Open, which it described as the most advanced U.S. open-weight artificial intelligence model to date. The company stated that this new model is the first in its class capable of running on the desktop using the MLX framework across two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.

Introduction of the Muse Spark Open Model

The Muse Spark Open artificial intelligence model announced by Meta has been introduced with the claim of being the most capable open-weight model developed in the U.S. to date.

Unexpected Collaboration Between Apple and Meta

Meta and Apple, which are normally in competition, carried out a joint effort for this launch and publicly supported each other.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the model's weights have been released and that, thanks to joint work with Apple, it runs great on the new Mac Studio devices.

Technical Details and Hardware Compatibility

The new model can be efficiently run on the desktop across two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios using the latest MLX framework infrastructure.

Apple CEO John Ternus stated that it is exciting to run AI of this caliber and scale directly from the desktop, and that the Mac Studio continues to push boundaries.

Multimodal Structure and Capabilities

Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, emphasized that the two companies have been collaborating for months. With a total of 816 billion parameters, this natively multimodal model demonstrates high success in long-horizon tasks, complex software engineering, and multi-step reasoning.