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72 hours, four big open weights drops. The only one that fits in 24GB came from NVIDIA, of all companies.

What a week. Quick recap, all numbers from the official repos and model cards: Thursday: Meta drops Muse Spark Open. 816B total, 42B active, 1M context. The launch post says it brings agentic AI "to your desktop". The desktop is two M5 Ultra Mac Studios with 512GB each, a config Apple says ships "l…

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  1. 2026-10-18 20:10 · r/LocalLLaMA
    72 hours, four big open weights drops. The only one that fits in 24GB came from NVIDIA, of all companies.

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