The Decoder · 10/16/2026, 02:34:32

Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Multimodal Model with 1M Context Rivals Chinese Giants

By Matthias Bastian
85AI Score
Executive Summary

Meta has released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model capable of processing text, images, video, and audio with a 1-million-token context window. It performs on par with leading Chinese open-source models like Qwen and GLM in benchmarks and is specifically optimized for local execution on Apple's M5 Ultra chip.

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Meta's Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens of context. It performs roughly on par with the most capable open-weight Chinese AI models on benchmarks and is optimized to run locally on Apple's M5 Ultra.

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