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MODELS · 4 SOURCES · Hugging Face · NVIDIA Developer · The Decoder · TechCrunch AI

Meta releases Muse Spark Open — 816B-parameter open-weight multimodal MoE model

Meta published Muse Spark Open, an open-weight mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with ~816 billion parameters (≈42B active per token) that accepts text, images, audio, and video and supports up to a 1,048,576-token context window. Meta says the model is optimized for agentic coding workflows (reading, writing, debugging code and tool calls); checkpoints are available in BF16 (safetensors, ~1.5 TB) and an NVFP4 4-bit format tuned for NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · Apple Machine Learning Research

MLX enables local and multi‑Mac inference of Muse Spark Open (816B) on Mac Studio

The MLX array framework added Apple Silicon support and demonstrates running frontier LLMs locally and in a distributed setup on Mac Studio. Using the latest MLX release and RDMA over Thunderbolt, a four‑node Mac Studio cluster runs Muse Spark Open (816B, MoE, NVFP4) at >36 tokens/s; smaller models (Qwen 3.8 and Mistral Medium 3.5) can fit on a single 512GB Mac Studio. Benchmarks with mlx_lm.benchmark report up to 4.6× faster time‑to‑first‑token and ~1.6× higher tokens/s on M5 Ultra versus M3 Ultra, and modest peak power (~200–300W) for inference.

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COMPANIES · 2 SOURCES · The Verge AI · The Decoder

Apple reportedly planning ARM-based servers with M8 Ultra chips and possible NVIDIA NVLink

The Information reports Apple is planning to re-enter the server market, potentially launching systems in 2029 that would use two or four future M8 Ultra chips; the machines are also rumored to support NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion interconnect. The plans are described as tentative and could change, though Apple’s recent use of NVIDIA chips for Siri and strong demand for Mac Mini/Mac Studio among AI developers are cited as context.

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