Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, Calling It the Most Capable US Open-Weight Model to Date - AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #115
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| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 115 · 20 STORIES |
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Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, Calling It the Most Capable US Open-Weight Model to Date
Meta is releasing the weights for a natively multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters, 42 billion active, and a 1 million token context window. The company says it is the first in its class to run on a desktop, using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios. |
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