Meta announced the Muse Spark Open AI model, claiming it's the most capable US open-weight model, and notably the first in its class that can run locally on Apple hardware—specifically two M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple's MLX framework. The collaboration between Meta and Apple is unusual given their rivalry, with both CEOs publicly endorsing the partnership.
Background
Apple's MLX framework is its custom machine learning stack designed to leverage the performance of Apple Silicon chips for local AI inference.
- Source
- The Verge
- Published
- Oct 16, 2026 at 02:15 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10