Apple and Meta team up to make Muse AI model run on Mac computers
Apple and Meta have collaborated to enable Meta's 'Muse Spark Open' AI model to run locally on Apple's Mac Studio computers. This partnership marks a shift in the relationship between the two tech giants, focusing on local AI processing for developers.
Why it matters
The collaboration signals a strategic pivot in the AI industry toward local, on-device processing, potentially challenging cloud-based AI dominance.
Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have clashed for years, but with John Ternus taking the reins at Apple , the rivals are finding common ground in artificial intelligence.
Meta and Apple revealed a new collaboration Thursday that will enable developers to easily run Meta's new open-weight AI model on Apple's high-end desktop computers.
The collaboration centers on Muse Spark Open, the most capable open-weight model released under a license that allows for limited commercial use, according to Meta. It's an 816-billion-parameter model using a so-called mixture-of-experts architecture . As an open-weight model, developers can download the technology's parameters, or weights, from the internet and run the model on a wide range of hardware.
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