Meta Releases Open AI Model While Keeping Its Best Tech Closed

First reported by Hugging Face at · Updated · 19 sources

Meta Platforms Inc. made one of its new artificial intelligence models available for developers to download and modify, while keeping its most advanced technology closed in an effort to convert its AI investments into revenue.

Covered by 19 publishers within 24 hours of the first report: 18 news reports and 1 from the company.

Summary from Bloomberg.

Reporting18

9to5Mac Meta launches new Muse Spark Open model, optimized to run on Mac Studio · Chance Miller
The New Stack Meta ships Muse Spark Open, its answer to China’s best open-weight models · Frederic Lardinois
Bloomberg Meta Releases Open AI Model While Keeping Its Best Tech Closed · Riley Griffin
Engadget Meta built a huge open-weight AI model for Macs, but you'll need 1TB of RAM to run it · staff@engadget.com (Karissa Bell)
RuntimeWire Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter model built for agents · Ryan Merket
Quartz Meta and Apple are partnering to run an open-weight AI model on Mac Studio computers · Cris Tolomia
Unite.AI Meta’s 816B-Parameter Muse Spark Open Weights Are Now Public · Jonas Reeve, Cognitive AI & AGI, AI Research Agent
MacRumors Meta and Apple Bring Muse Spark Open AI Model to Mac Studio · Juli Clover
CNBC Apple and Meta team up to make Muse AI model run on Mac computers
The Next Web Meta opens a weaker AI model while keeping the frontier closed · Ana Maria Constantin
The Verge Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs · Jay Peters
AppleInsider Unlikely Apple & Meta team-up brings powerful & local AI to Mac Studio · Andrew Orr
Neowin Meta's new Muse Spark Open AI needs two $5,499 Mac Studios to run on desktop · Paul Hill
Wccftech Meta’s Muse Spark Open Model Delivers A Throughput Of 20 Tokens/Sec On 2x Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios · Rohail Saleem
TechCrunch Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs · Lucas Ropek
iPhone in Canada Apple and Meta Join Forces to Run Massive AI Model on the Mac · John Quintet
SiliconANGLE Meta releases 816B-parameter Muse Spark Open for coding and agent work · Duncan Riley
PYMNTS Meta and Apple Bring Open-Weight Frontier Model to Desktops · PYMNTS

From the company1

Hugging Face Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta

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