Meta and Apple agree on at least one thing: Open-weight AI is cool
Meta released a new version of its Muse Spark LLM on Thursday. As its name indicates, the big news about Muse Spark Open is that it’s an open-weight model . Rather than being offered solely as a cloud service, it’s publicly available for anyone to run on their own hardware. With 816 billion total parameters and a 1-million-token context window, it’s the U.S.’s most capable open-weight model,…
Meta and Apple have found common ground in the realm of open-weight AI, as evidenced by the recent launch of Meta's Muse Spark Open LLM. This model, boasting 816 billion parameters and a 1-million-token context window, allows companies to run AI models on their own hardware, providing them with greater control, privacy, and cost-efficiency.
The open-weight model follows the previously released but less successful Llama 4. This development could revitalize interest in open-weight AI models, which saw a decline after the release of Llama 4. During a media demonstration at Apple's headquarters, Muse Spark Open showcased its capabilities, including writing software, coding, and video editing.
This collaboration between Meta and Apple may not only benefit their respective AI ventures but also revitalize Apple's position in the AI landscape, which has been long criticized for being behind other major players like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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