Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta has released Muse Spark Open, a high-parameter open-weight AI model designed to run locally on Apple Mac hardware. The model is optimized for complex coding and agentic workflows, though it requires significant hardware resources to operate.
Why it matters
This release represents a significant step in making powerful, open-weight AI models accessible for local professional use on consumer-grade hardware.
Meta has launched what it calls the “most capable” open-weight model in the United States. Dubbed Muse Spark Open, the model also has the distinction of having been designed to work with Macs.
The new model, which leverages 816 billion parameters and a 1 million token context window, claims to offer superior performance to other popular open weight models, according to evaluation results released by Meta on Thursday.
Muse Spark Open is natively multimodal and built for complex coding tasks and agentic labor. It has also been designed to run locally on Apple’s computers. However, you will still need a lot of power to run the model locally, with a requirement of at least 1 terabyte of RAM, per Engadget . The model will run best via the Mac Studio that comes equipped with the M5 Ultra chip.
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