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.


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 256GB each, using hardware introduced in Apple's recent Mac Studio refresh. The four-machine configuration is available now, but Apple's 512GB option isn't expected to ship until late October.


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