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Tech · 19 d ago

Meta Platforms headquarters, Menlo Park, California

Meta releases an open-weight AI model built to run on Macs

The size of Muse Spark Open

816 billion parameters

The model, Muse Spark Open, has 816 billion parameters and a one-million-token context window. Meta calls it the most capable open-weight model in the United States.

What it means

open-weight

Unlike closed models, open-weight models can be more cost-efficient and offer more transparency and flexibility.

A Mac Studio computer

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Running it on a Mac takes at least 1 terabyte of RAM, according to reports, and it runs best on a Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip.

Meta says it paired the model with its coding terminal, Muse Code, and used it to review and crop video in DaVinci Resolve. It is available now through several API platforms.