Meta has launched what it calls the “most capable” open-weight model in the United States. Dubbed Muse Spark Open, this model is designed specifically to work with Macs. Leveraging 816 billion parameters and a 1 million token context window, it claims to offer superior performance compared to other popular open-weight models, according to evaluation results released by Meta on Thursday.

Key Features of Muse Spark Open

  • Natively multimodal and built for complex coding tasks and agentic labor.
  • Designed to run locally on Apple’s computers.
  • Requires at least 1 terabyte of RAM to operate effectively.
  • Best performance is achieved via the Mac Studio equipped with the M5 Ultra chip.