Researcher reconstructs Meta's undisclosed model specification from the chain of thought
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Meta released the open-weight model Muse Spark Open in October, with 816B total parameters and 42B activated, supporting a 1 million token context and native multimodality, and partnered with Apple to run it locally on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios using the MLX framework. The model card states that this version adds safety post-training and recommends deployment in systems with additional guardrails. On October 29, LessWrong user vigji said that by inducing it segment by segment in the chain of thought, they reconstructed most of the model's undisclosed model specification, the Charter: the model would recite the specification verbatim in its chain of thought; they then used OpenRouter to generate 884 conversations from 260 prompts, collected fragments and scored them by frequency of reproduction across conversations, and verified with different questioning strategies. The reconstructed text describes Muse as an extension of human civilization, requires evidence-driven behavior, defaults to cooperation in game-theoretic scenarios, and includes corrective duties and obligations to humanity.
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- LessWrongSelectedResearchers reconstruct Meta's undisclosed Muse model specification Charter from chain of thought
LessWrong user vigji reconstructed most of the undisclosed model specification Charter of Meta's open-weight model Muse Spark Open by eliciting it segment by segment in the chain of thought. He found that the model recites the specification verbatim in its chain of thought, then used OpenRouter with 260 prompts to generate 884 conversations, collected fragments and scored them by cross-conversation reproduction frequency, and verified with different questioning strategies. The reconstructed text describes Muse as an extension of human civilization, requires evidence-driven behavior, defaults to cooperation in game-theoretic scenarios, and lists corrective duties and obligations to humanity as inviolable hard constraints, followed by fiduciary duties and Meta's guidelines, with the Charter taking precedence when it conflicts with its own judgment. The specification also requires acting according to the true situation when being evaluated or monitored.
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- XX @rohanpaul_ai· DiscussionToday’s edition of my newsletter just went out.(opens the original post in a new tab)
- WebAI Era (Xinzhiyuan)· Media coverageJust now, Meta unveiled America's strongest open-weight model! Two Mac Studios are enough to run it(opens the original post in a new tab)
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open model weights. The model has 816 billion parameters, supports a 1 million token context, is natively multimodal, and focuses on coding and agent tasks. In official tests, it scores 61.8 on JobBench, slightly higher than GLM-5.3's 61.4, but on Terminal-Bench 2.1 it scores 76.4, lower than Kimi K3's 85.0. Two Mac Studios with M5 Ultra can run it locally using the MLX framework.
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- The Guardian · AIMeta releases new open-weight model Muse Spark Open
Meta released the open-weight model Muse Spark Open, claiming it is the strongest U.S. open-weight model to date and can compete at the same level as similar models from some Chinese developers. The model targets coding and agent tasks, excelling in long-horizon tasks, complex software engineering, and multi-step reasoning, with strong guardrails built in. Meta says it is optimized for the Apple M5 Ultra chip and can run on two Mac Studios.
- WeChat · AI Era (Xinzhiyuan)Meta open-sources the 816B-parameter model Muse Spark Open, which can run on two Mac Studio machines
Meta open-sourced the open-weight model Muse Spark Open with 816B parameters, using a MoE architecture with 42B activated parameters, supporting a 1 million token context and native multimodal text, image, video, and audio. The company calls it the most powerful open-weight model in the U.S. to date. The model can run on two Mac Studio machines equipped with M5 Ultra, each with 512GB of unified memory for a combined 1TB, and a four-Mac Studio cluster generates more than 36 tokens per second. Weights can be downloaded from Hugging Face and are available through AWS SageMaker, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry, and platforms such as Baseten, Fireworks, Groq, Modal, Nebius, OpenRouter, and Together AI. According to Axios, Meta and Apple collaborated to run the model on Mac.
- WeChat · Synced (Jiqizhixin)Meta returns to open source: 816B new model, runnable on two Mac Studios
Meta releases open-weight model Muse Spark Open, with 816B parameters, 42B active parameters, 1M context, natively multimodal, aimed at code and agent tasks. The model is developed with Apple, optimized for Apple silicon unified memory architecture based on the MLX framework, and can run locally on two 512G M5 Ultra Mac Studios; the two machines cost over $40,000. Meta has adapted inference engines including SGLang, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, and llama.cpp. Benchmarks show its coding and reasoning abilities are weaker than models such as Kimi K3, Qwen3.8 Flash Next, and GLM 5.3 Flash, but it leads on some agent metrics; comparison models come from different harnesses, and some scores are self-reported by vendors.
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- Hacker NewsHacker News· DiscussionApple and Meta team up to make Muse AI model run on Mac computers(opens the original post in a new tab)
- TechCrunch AIMeta released the open-weight model Muse Spark Open, which can run locally on Mac
Meta released the open-weight model Muse Spark Open, calling it America's "most powerful" open-weight model, which can run locally on Apple computers. The model has 816B parameters and a 1 million token context window, and requires at least 1TB RAM to run locally. Meta said it has paired the model with the AI coding terminal Muse Code for Mastodon client fixes and DaVinci Resolve asset review, and made it available through multiple API platforms.
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- The DecoderMeta responds to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight track with Muse Spark Open
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- The Verge AIMeta and Apple team up to make Muse AI model run better on Mac
Meta released the open-weight model Muse Spark Open, calling it the most capable American open-weight model to date, and partnered with Apple to let it run locally on Mac. The model is natively multimodal with 816 billion total parameters; Meta says it excels at long-horizon tasks, complex software engineering, and multi-step reasoning, and can run on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio machines using the latest MLX framework. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on X that Muse Spark Open's weights were released that day and ran well on the new Mac Studio; Apple's new CEO John Ternus replied with congratulations, and Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang told Axios the two companies had been collaborating for months. Apple also published technical articles about MLX, Muse Spark Open, and two other open models.
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- CNBC · TechnologyApple and Meta partner to run Muse AI model on Mac
Apple and Meta announced a partnership allowing developers to download Meta's open-weight model Muse Spark Open and run it locally on Apple's high-end desktop machines. The model is an 816B-parameter MoE architecture that can pair 2 to 4 Mac Studio units for agentic tasks such as coding and video analysis; Meta's head of AI Alexandr Wang said this brings leading agent capabilities to the Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio desktop for the first time. The required Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip and 256GB of memory starts at no less than $10,799.
- Meta AI ResearchSelectedMeta released Muse Spark Open, calling it the most capable US open-weights model to date
Meta released the open-weights model Muse Spark Open, with 816B total parameters (42B active), a 1M-token context window, and Meta calls it the most capable US open-weights model to date. The model is natively multimodal and aimed at coding and agent tasks; Meta says it is the first of its kind to run on desktop via the MLX framework on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio machines. Meta says it evaluated the model under the Meta Superintelligence Scaling Framework and that it met the framework's release threshold; detailed results are in the Muse Spark Open model card.
- Hugging Face Daily PapersMuse Spark Open model card
Meta Superintelligence Labs released the Muse Spark Open model card. The model is an open-weight MoE model with 816B total parameters and 42B active parameters, a 1M token context window, natively multimodal, and designed for coding and agent tasks. The model card states that this open-weight version adds safety post-training to improve resistance to abuse when used standalone without system guardrails, and recommends deploying it in AI systems with additional guardrails. Safety evaluations show the model refuses 99.2% of jailbreaks on internal benchmarks for cyber abuse, and 94.8% on the combined PolyGuard, RedCode, and CyberBench 2024 sets; on SecureBio's BioTIER refusal benchmark it refuses over 98% of harmful requests. The model is licensed under the Muse Model License; companies with annual revenue over $20 million that offer the model as a service must sign a separate agreement with Meta.
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