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Meta and Apple team up to make Muse AI models run better on Macs

The Verge

What changed

Meta announced Muse Spark, an open-weight AI model it calls its most capable US open-weight model to date.

The company says Muse Spark can run on a desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios and Apple’s MLX framework.

Why it matters

The interesting part is not just the model announcement. It is the hardware target: Meta is presenting Muse Spark as something that can run locally, but the stated setup requires two high-end Mac Studios. That makes “desktop AI” sound less like a single workstation and more like a compact lab.

For builders, MLX is the practical hinge. Meta’s claim ties the model’s local operation to Apple’s framework and a specific two-machine configuration. Whether that is genuinely useful will depend on performance, reproducibility, availability and total cost, none of which has been independently established.

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