Unlikely Apple & Meta team-up brings powerful & local AI to Mac Studio
Meta worked with Apple to bring its massive Muse Spark Open AI model to M5 Ultra Mac Studios, letting developers run advanced AI locally instead of relying on cloud servers. Meta Muse and Apple Intelligence Announced on October 15, Muse Spark Open is an open-weight AI model designed for coding, software engineering, and tasks that require multiple steps. Meta developed the model with 816 billion parameters, although only 42 billion are active during processing.
Running the model requires at least two M5 Ultra Mac Studios with 512GB of unified memory each, or four machines configured with…
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- andrew orr
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- Friday, 16 October 2026, 12:19 am IST
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