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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight AI model

Meta has launched Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model designed to run on consumer hardware like Mac Studios. The release aims to compete with Chinese AI developers and features a license prohibiting the misrepresentation of outputs as human-written.

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Timeline · 52 reports

  1. 2026-10-16 17:23 · AI Insider
    Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-Parameter Open-Weight AI Model Built to Run on Macs
  2. 2026-10-16 17:00 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B: Arquitetura Híbrida Mamba-MoE com Visão RADIO, NVFP4 e Batalha de Fronteira
  3. 2026-10-16 16:04 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Muse Spark Open 816B: Inside Meta's Largest Open-Weight Model
  4. 2026-10-16 15:27 · The Independent Tech
    Meta launches new ‘open’ AI model – and it comes with a big surprise
  5. 2026-10-16 14:12 · r/artificial
    Meta releases Muse Spark Open: it runs on two Mac Studios, and its license bans passing off its output as human-written
  6. 2026-10-16 12:09 · r/LocalLLM
    Has anyone tried this Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB on a 5090 yet?
  7. 2026-10-16 08:28 · r/LocalLLaMA
    model : MTP support for Mellum2.1 by Xarbirus · Pull Request #30612 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
  8. 2026-10-16 08:10 · TechXplore AI & ML
    Meta unveils new 'open' AI model to rival Chinese competition
  9. 2026-10-16 07:52 · r/LocalLLaMA
    cpu : reduce AVX2 tiled accumulators together by trivalik · Pull Request #30296 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
  10. 2026-10-16 07:39 · r/LocalLLM
    NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B A9B 24GB GGUF
  11. 2026-10-16 04:37 · Mint AI
    Meta launches Muse Spark open model to challenge China’s AI dominance
  12. 2026-10-16 02:31 · r/machinelearningnews
    Meta released Muse Spark Open: 816B MoE (42B active), 1M context, NVFP4 runs on 2x M5 Ultra Mac Studios. Benchmarks vs Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 and Qwen3.8 inside
  13. 2026-10-16 02:26 · MarkTechPost
    Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context
  14. 2026-10-15 23:22 · r/LocalLLaMA
    nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Embed-1B-BF16 · Hugging Face
  15. 2026-10-15 22:20 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Meta releases 816B-parameter Muse Spark Open for coding and agent work
  16. 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
  17. 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?
  18. 2026-10-15 20:55 · Mashable AI
    Apple and Meta are getting along, and the new Muse Spark Open model brought them together
  19. 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
  20. 2026-10-15 20:04 · TechCrunch AI
    Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
  21. 2026-10-15 19:53 · MarkTechPost
    NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120B Open Multimodal Agent Model
  22. 2026-10-15 19:13 · r/LocalLLM
    Muse Spark Open!
  23. 2026-10-15 18:34 · The Decoder
    Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race
  24. 2026-10-15 18:01 · NVIDIA Technical Blog
    NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Powers Specialized Agents with Multimodal Reasoning
  25. 2026-10-15 18:00 · NVIDIA Technical Blog
    Scale Agentic Coding Workflows with Meta’s Muse Spark Open on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72
  26. 2026-10-15 17:55 · PyTorch Blog
    Muse Spark Is Now an Open-Weights Model
  27. 2026-10-15 17:45 · r/singularity
    META has released Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to date
  28. 2026-10-15 17:43 · AWS Machine Learning Blog
    Meta’s Muse Spark Open now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
  29. 2026-10-15 17:31 · r/LocalLLM
    Meta releases new open-weight Muse Spark model.
  30. 2026-10-15 17:10 · SiliconANGLE AI
    Nvidia expands Nemotron LLM family with hyper-efficient models for agentic systems
  31. 2026-10-15 17:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Unsloth Muse Spark Open is out!
  32. 2026-10-15 17:05 · r/LocalLLaMA
    UNSLOTH MUSE SPARK OPEN!!
  33. 2026-10-15 17:03 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Introducing Muse Spark Open: the most capable US open-weight model to date
  34. 2026-10-15 17:02 · Engadget
    Meta built a huge open-weight AI model for Macs, but you'll need 1TB of RAM to run it
  35. 2026-10-15 17:00 · Wall Street Journal Technology
    Meta and Apple, Longtime Foes, Team Up to Put Open-Weight AI on Macs
  36. 2026-10-15 17:00 · The New Stack AI
    Meta ships Muse Spark Open, its answer to China’s best open-weight models
  37. 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
  38. 2026-10-15 15:30 · r/LocalLLM
    NVIDIA releases new models: Nemotron-3.5 Bolt and Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL!
  39. 2026-10-15 15:04 · r/LocalLLaMA
    nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB · Hugging Face
  40. 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
  41. 2026-10-15 15:00 · ZDNET AI
    Nvidia’s new Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is another step forward for US open-weight AI
  42. 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)
  43. 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
  44. 2026-10-15 00:00 · Together AI Blog
    Meta Muse Spark Open is live on Together AI
  45. 2026-10-15 00:00 · Vercel Blog
    Muse Spark Open now available on AI Gateway
  46. 2026-10-15 00:00 · Hugging Face Blog
    Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta
  47. 2026-10-14 14:42 · r/LocalLLaMA
    NVIDIA Nemotron Bolt 3.5 74B A9B releases Oct. 15th
  48. 2026-10-14 14:23 · r/LocalLLaMA
    cuda, hip: GDN chunked kernel by am17an · Pull Request #29353 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
  49. 2026-10-14 13:14 · AWS Machine Learning Blog
    Deploy and evaluate models with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
  50. 2026-10-14 11:41 · r/LocalLLM
    NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B Brings 74B AI Models to Local Hardware
  51. 2026-10-14 11:08 · r/LocalLLaMA
    common : add --spec-draft-n-ubatch by ggerganov · Pull Request #30459 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
  52. 2026-10-13 23:35 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Muse Spark open weights reaffirmed

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