EP 661 : Meta’s Muse Spark Open: Open-Weight AI Runs on Apple Mac Studios + AI News roundup
Meta just dropped the most capable open‑weight AI model from the U.S., and it can run locally on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios – a first for an 816‑billion‑parameter system. In this episode we break down why Muse Spark Open matters, how Apple’s MLX toolkit makes it possible, and what it means for the Western AI race against China’s GLM, Kimi and Qwen models.We dive into the details: the 816B multimodal model is tuned for coding, agentic workflows and even video editing in DaVinci Resolve without touching the cloud. We compare its performance on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, explore…
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