Muse Spark Open(research.meta.ai)
823 points by bigwheels 17 hours ago | 413 comments
tl;dr: Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter (42B active) multimodal MoE model with a 1M-token context, optimized for coding and agentic workflows. Notably, it can run locally on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios via MLX, leveraging their unified memory to hold the full model. Weights are available on Hugging Face under a limited commercial license, with hosted inference through Together AI, Fireworks, Groq, and others.
HN Discussion:
  • ~Geographic framing of 'best' claims reveals Western models can't beat Chinese ones
  • ↓Benchmarks show the model underperforms smaller Chinese open-weight competitors
  • ↓License restrictions on large inference providers undermine the 'open' claim
  • ↑Zuckerberg's commoditize-intelligence strategy and broad runner support is validating
  • ~Running the model locally on dual Mac Studios is impressive but prohibitively expensive