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Meta releases 816B open-weight Muse Spark Open; NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3.5 models

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Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter MoE model with 1M context, while NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt 74B-A9B. Apple and Meta also collaborated to enable local execution of Muse Spark on Mac Studios.

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  1. 2026-10-16 03:21 · ThursdAI
    ThursdAI - Oct 15 - Meta ships Muse Wonder AND an 816B open model, Gemini 4 Argon is here & more
  2. 2026-10-16 02:26 · MarkTechPost
    Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context
  3. 2026-10-15 23:22 · r/LocalLLaMA
    nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16 · Hugging Face
  4. 2026-10-15 22:20 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Meta releases 816B-parameter Muse Spark Open for coding and agent work
  5. 2026-10-15 21:51 · r/LocalLLaMA
    model: add Muse Spark Open (text, vision and audio) by ServeurpersoCom · Pull Request #30616 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
  6. 2026-10-15 21:40 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Thanks for the open weights, Meta, but how many of us can actually run Muse Spark Open locally?
  7. 2026-10-15 20:55 · Mashable AI
    Apple and Meta are getting along, and the new Muse Spark Open model brought them together
  8. 2026-10-15 20:12 · r/machinelearningnews
    NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B-A12B, open weights, 1M ctx, image + video) and Bolt 74B-A9B that fits in 24GB
  9. 2026-10-15 19:53 · MarkTechPost
    NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model
  10. 2026-10-15 19:13 · r/LocalLLM
    Muse Spark Open!
  11. 2026-10-15 18:34 · The Decoder
    Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race
  12. 2026-10-15 18:01 · NVIDIA Technical Blog
    NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Powers Specialized Agents with Multimodal Reasoning
  13. 2026-10-15 18:00 · NVIDIA Technical Blog
    Scale Agentic Coding Workflows with Meta’s Muse Spark Open on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
  14. 2026-10-15 17:55 · PyTorch Blog
    Muse Spark Is Now an Open-Weights Model
  15. 2026-10-15 17:47 · Hacker News Front Page
    Muse Spark Open
  16. 2026-10-15 17:45 · r/singularity
    META has released Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to date
  17. 2026-10-15 17:43 · AWS Machine Learning Blog
    Meta’s Muse Spark Open now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
  18. 2026-10-15 17:35 · Unite.AI
    Meta's 816B-Parameter Muse Spark Open Weights Are Now Public
  19. 2026-10-15 17:31 · r/LocalLLM
    Meta releases new open-weight Muse Spark model.
  20. 2026-10-15 17:10 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Nvidia expands Nemotron LLM family with hyper-efficient models for agentic systems
  21. 2026-10-15 17:08 · AlphaSignal
    Meta Drops Muse Spark Open, an 816B Open-Weight Model Rivaling Closed AI Giants
  22. 2026-10-15 17:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Unsloth Muse Spark Open is out!
  23. 2026-10-15 17:05 · r/LocalLLaMA
    UNSLOTH MUSE SPARK OPEN!!
  24. 2026-10-15 17:03 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Introducing Muse Spark Open: the most capable US open-weight model to date
  25. 2026-10-15 17:00 · The New Stack AI
    Meta ships Muse Spark Open, its answer to China’s best open-weight models
  26. 2026-10-15 16:09 · The Decoder
    Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is an open model built to run enterprise AI agents nonstop
  27. 2026-10-15 15:30 · r/LocalLLM
    NVIDIA releases new models: Nemotron-3.5 Bolt and Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL!
  28. 2026-10-15 15:22 · Unite.AI
    NVIDIA Releases Open Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt Edge Models
  29. 2026-10-15 15:09 · AlphaSignal
    NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Runs 5x Faster on Agentic Tasks
  30. 2026-10-15 15:04 · r/LocalLLaMA
    nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB · Hugging Face
  31. 2026-10-15 15:00 · NVIDIA Blog
    Open From Data Center to Desktop: NVIDIA Expands Nemotron Family With Highest Efficiency Super VL and Bolt Models
  32. 2026-10-15 15:00 · ZDNET AI
    Nvidia’s new Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is another step forward for US open-weight AI
  33. 2026-10-15 14:46 · r/LocalLLaMA
    nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B model family released (base, NVFP4, BF16, and LiLiCorr speculative decoding)
  34. 2026-10-15 14:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Add Nemotron Super 3.5 VL and Nemotron Bolt 74B A9B support by frozenblade1224 · Pull Request #30520 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
  35. 2026-10-15 07:45 · r/GeminiAI
    Free Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemini Argon... Spoiler Sonnet WINS!
  36. 2026-10-15 00:00 · Vercel Blog
    Muse Spark Open now available on AI Gateway
  37. 2026-10-15 00:00 · Hugging Face Blog
    Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta
  38. 2026-10-15 00:00 · Together AI Blog
    Meta Muse Spark Open is live on Together AI
  39. 2026-10-14 20:09 · r/GeminiAI
    Claude opus 5.5 vs argon 4
  40. 2026-10-14 16:46 · r/singularity
    Muse Wonder (high) scores 1.96 on the Short Story Creative Writing Benchmark, compared with 0.56 for Muse Spark 1.3 (high). Gemini 4 Argon (high) scores 0.80, up from −2.17 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
  41. 2026-10-14 14:42 · r/LocalLLaMA
    NVIDIA Nemotron Bolt 3.5 74B A9B releases Oct. 15th
  42. 2026-10-14 14:23 · r/LocalLLaMA
    cuda, hip: GDN chunked kernel by am17an · Pull Request #29353 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
  43. 2026-10-14 13:19 · r/GeminiAI
    Gemini 4 Argon vs Muse Wonder in game development, Same prompt, two completely different games
  44. 2026-10-14 13:14 · AWS Machine Learning Blog
    Deploy and evaluate models with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
  45. 2026-10-14 12:49 · r/ChatGPT
    Gemini Argon ($0.19) vs Opus 5.5 ($12.06) on the same ship in a bottle prompt (@vib3coded)
  46. 2026-10-14 12:41 · r/GeminiAI
    Gemini 4 Argon vs Opus 5.5 Mario 3D Test
  47. 2026-10-14 11:41 · r/LocalLLM
    NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B Brings 74B AI Models to Local Hardware
  48. 2026-10-14 11:08 · r/LocalLLaMA
    common : add --spec-draft-n-ubatch by ggerganov · Pull Request #30459 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
  49. 2026-10-14 04:57 · r/Bard
    Argon 4 vs opus 5.5 vs Gpt 6 astra (gemini is really good)
  50. 2026-10-14 04:53 · r/singularity
    Argon 4 vs opus 5.5 vs Gpt 6 astra (gemini is really good)
  51. 2026-10-14 04:50 · r/GeminiAI
    Argon 4 vs opus 5.5 vs gpt 6 astra (gemini is really good)
  52. 2026-10-14 04:43 · r/GeminiAI
    Argon 4 vs opus 5.5
  53. 2026-10-14 03:11 · r/GeminiAI
    Argon 4 vs Opus 5.5
  54. 2026-10-13 23:35 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Muse Spark open weights reaffirmed
  55. 2026-10-13 20:23 · r/GeminiAI
    Tested Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Sonnet 5.5 on a real-world noncoding professional prompt
  56. 2026-10-13 15:28 · r/singularity
    Muse Wonder (high) scores 93.4 on the Extended NYT Connections Benchmark, ahead of Muse Spark 1.3 (high) at 85.1. It's among the most expensive models tested.

More stories

  1. Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight AI model — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  2. Meta and Apple, Longtime Foes, Team Up to Put Open-Weight AI on Macs — Wall Street Journal Technology
  3. We Got Hot and Heavy With Meta’s Muse—and Baffled by Apple’s HomeView — Wired AI
  4. QUASAR 4-bit QAT checkpoints for Qwen3.5, Gemma 4 and Muse Glimmer: closer to BF16 than Google’s and NVIDIA’s 4-bit releases — r/LocalLLaMA
  5. TSMC chip capacity is ‘fierce’ battleground for AI customers, amid record quarter — CNBC Technology
  6. We tested the RTX Spark Superchip in Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra — Tom's Hardware
  7. Apple closes above $5 trillion market cap for first time — Wall Street Journal Technology
  8. Smaller MoEs work well on unified memory systems, so why doesn’t Intel, Qualcomm and Apple make MoEs? — r/LocalLLM

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