Release2026-10-15

Meta released Muse Spark Open, a US open-weight model. It has 816B total parameters and a 1M-token context window. It excels at coding, agentic work and long-horizon tasks. It runs on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with MLX. Weights are available on Hugging Face, SageMaker, Google Cloud and others. It works with SGLang, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM and more. API access is live via Baseten, Fireworks, Groq and others. It passed Meta’s safety evaluation for release. The model uses a limited commercial license. Developers can fine-tune it with PyTorch.

What changed

No US open-weight model ran on desktop hardware with this capability.

What it unlocks

Running a leading open-weight model on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios for coding and agentic tasks.

  • 816B total parameters
  • 42B active parameters
  • 1M-token context window
  • 512 GB memory per Mac Studio

What you need to act on it

  • two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios
  • MLX framework

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