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Two Apple Mac Studio computers on a developer's desk with an abstract neural-network glow, illustrating Meta's Muse Spark Open AI model running locally on Apple hardware

Apple and Meta team up to run 816B Muse Spark Open AI model on Mac Studios

Mark Zuckerberg and Apple just became collaborators. Let that sink in for a second. On Thursday, Oct. 15, Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight AI model, and announced that Apple had worked with it for months to make the model run locally on Mac Studio computers. It’s the first public technical partnership between the two companies in years, and it hands developers a way to run frontier-scale AI on hardware sitting on their desks instead of in someone else’s data center. ...

October 15, 2026 · 6 min · 1263 words ·