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AI at Meta: ‘Today we’re releasing Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to date’

AI at Meta @AIatMetaX

Why it matters

Official launch thread with the model specs (816B total / 42B active, 1M context, natively multimodal); ~767k views.

Summary

Official launch thread: built for coding and agentic work; 816B total / 42B active parameters, 1M-token context, natively multimodal across text, image, video and audio. A follow-up post says it is optimised to run on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with MLX and on SGLang, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Transformers, llama.cpp and Unsloth (~83k views). ~767k views on the main post by Oct 16 morning.

Archived text

Today we’re releasing Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to date.

Built for coding and agentic work, it excels at long-horizon tasks, complex software engineering, and multi-step reasoning.

Key Model Specs: → 816B total / 42B active parameters → 1M token context window → Natively multimodal across text, image, video, audio

Source: x.com/AIatMeta/status/2110779754274292212Archived 2026-10-16 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 783,808 views, 9,995 likes, 1,043 reposts, 378 replies (at fetch time)Media: image 1, image 2

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  1. Open source 107 days after the cutoff

    Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B open-weight model built with Apple to run on Mac Studios