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2026-10-15•2 min read

Meta Releases 816B-Parameter Muse Spark Open Weights With 1M Context Window

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“Activating only 42B of 816B parameters per token makes local inference feasible on 1.2 TB/s desktop memory, even if "running at home" still requires buying two maxed-out 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studios and navigating limited commercial licensing terms.”

Meta Releases 816B-Parameter Muse Spark Open Weights With 1M Context Window
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Executive Summary

  • •Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open, a natively multimodal coding and agentic AI model under the Muse Model License with limited commercial terms.
  • •The model features 816B total parameters with 42B active parameters, a 1M-token context window, and runs locally across two 512GB Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
  • •Weights are available now on Hugging Face and major cloud platforms, with custom Helion GPU kernels in SGLang delivering a 3% end-to-end speedup on AMD MI350 GPUs.

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Key Developments & Data

Meta released the weights for Muse Spark Open under the Muse Model License with limited commercial terms, describing the natively multimodal model as the most capable US open-weight release to date with 816B total parameters, 42B active parameters, and a 1M-token context window. Built for complex software engineering, long-horizon tasks, and multi-step reasoning, the model can run locally on a desktop setup pairing two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios via the MLX framework, pooling up to 512GB of unified memory per machine and 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth into a 1TB local environment. In on-device tests using Muse Code, Meta ran end-to-end agentic workflows that shipped iOS bug fixes and features to the open-source Mastodon client Ice Cubes and operated DaVinci Resolve to review video frame by frame and crop vertical clips. The release includes custom, auto-tunable Helion GPU kernels in SGLang that achieve 1.03x to 3.95x kernel-level speedups on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, alongside a 3% end-to-end speedup on AMD MI350 silicon. Model weights are available via Hugging Face, Amazon SageMaker AI, Google Cloud Model Garden, and Microsoft Foundry Models, with API access hosted on Baseten, Fireworks AI, Groq, Modal, Nebius, OpenRouter, and Together AI.

Zubiqo Strategic Assessment

Primary Impact

AI application developers, enterprise software teams, cloud inference providers, and high-end workstation hardware vendors, particularly Apple and AMD.

Strategic Shift

Sparse mixture-of-experts architectures with small active parameter footprints are pushing frontier-scale coding and multimodal agentic workloads from cloud clusters onto local high-memory workstations.

The Ripple Effect

Developers with dual-Mac Studio setups can execute 1M-token context agentic workflows entirely on-device without recurring API token fees, subject to the Muse Model License's commercial restrictions.

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