Meta and Apple Collaborate on AI Model for Macs

Meta has released the Muse Spark Open AI model, touting it as the most capable US open-weight model to date. The collaboration with Apple focuses on enabling the model to run efficiently on Mac Studios using the latest MLX framework. This partnership marks a significant step in leveraging Apple's hardware for advanced AI tasks. Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, highlighted the joint effort, emphasizing the performance of the model on new Mac Studio systems. Apple's CEO, John Ternus, praised the efficiency of running such a high-caliber model directly on desktop hardware. The collaboration between two typically rival companies underscores a growing trend of cross-industry cooperation in AI development. The Muse Spark Open model is a natively multimodal AI with 816 billion parameters, designed for complex tasks and multi-step reasoning. Apple has also shared technical details about MLX, an array framework that supports ML tasks on Apple Silicon, further enhancing the capabilities of open models.