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Apple and Meta team up to make Muse AI model run on Mac computers
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Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg have clashed for years, but with John Ternus taking the reins at Apple, the rivals are finding common ground in artificial intelligence.
Key facts
- Meta estimated in early 2022 that the change would cut its revenue that year by $10 billion
- Currently, a Mac Studio with the required M5 Ultra chip and 256GB of memory costs at least $10,799
- Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang said that many powerful open-weight models are too big to be run on most personal computers, but Apple's Mac Studios make enough memory available to users so that it's
- Cook, who was Apple CEO until Ternus succeeded him last month, took a shot at Zuckerberg in 2018, during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying, "The reporter wouldn't be in this situation
Summary
Meta and Apple revealed a new collaboration Thursday that will enable developers to easily run Meta's new open-weight AI model on Apple's high-end desktop computers. The collaboration centers on Muse Spark Open, the most capable open-weight model released under a license that allows for limited commercial use, according to Meta. Customers will be able to pair between two and four Mac Studio PCs to use Muse Spark to code, analyze video or do other agentic work. Thursday's announcement, following months of collaboration, is a sign that the AI boom has shifted historical alliances in Silicon Valley.