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Apple and Meta team up for local AI
Apple and Meta launch first open-weight AI model to run on desktops.
In brief
Apple and Meta launch first open-weight AI model to run on desktops. Apple and Meta partnered to run Meta's Muse Spark Open AI model locally on Mac Studios using Apple's M5 Ultra chips. Originally reported by Dealroom.
Meta releases Muse Spark Open
Meta released Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to date, for local hardware on Apple Mac Studios.
Apple and Meta team up
Apple and Meta partnered to run Muse Spark Open locally on Mac Studios using Apple's M5 Ultra chips with 1TB unified memory.
Why this matters
The partnership ends years of public friction between Apple and Meta over privacy and app-store policy, enabling open AI on desktops.
The takeaway
Apple and Meta partnered to run Meta's Muse Spark Open AI model locally on Mac Studios using Apple's M5 Ultra chips.
