Apple and Meta Partner to Bring 816B-Parameter Muse Spark Open to Mac Studios

Apple and Meta announced a landmark partnership to optimize Meta's Muse Spark Open AI model for local deployment on Mac Studio clusters, marking a significant shift in how frontier-scale AI systems reach developers. The 816-billion-parameter model, featuring a mixture-of-experts architecture with 42 billion active parameters at any given time, can now run locally on dual or quad M5 Ultra Mac Studios via Apple's MLX framework—eliminating reliance on cloud infrastructure for enterprise-scale AI workloads.