Meta has launched what it calls the “best performing” open weight model in the United States. Called Muse Spark Open, the model also has the particularity of having been designed to work with Macs.
The new model, which leverages 816 billion parameters and a million-token popup, claims to deliver superior performance to other popular open-weight models, according to benchmark results released Thursday by Meta.
Muse Spark Open is natively multimodal and designed for complex coding tasks and agent work. It was also designed to run locally on Apple computers. However, you’ll still need a lot of power to run the model locally, with a requirement of at least 1 terabyte of RAM, per Engadget. The model will work best through the Mac Studio equipped with the M5 Ultra chip.
Still, if you can gather the memory, Muse Spark Open can prove to be an important tool for coding and other office tasks. Meta says it paired the model with Muse Code, its AI coding endpoint, and deployed it to various agent workflows, including coding fixes for a Mastodon client that included “bug fixes, new features (and) a full release.”
The company says it also deployed it to run DaVinci Resolve, the premium video editing software, revealing that the model was capable of reviewing and cropping footage.
Open models offer a number of distinct industry advantages that closed, proprietary models do not offer. Open models can be significantly more cost-effective and can also provide transparency and flexibility that closed models do not allow.
Meta is making the new model available now through a number of different API platforms.
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