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Meta unveils new ‘open’ AI model to rival Chinese competition
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SAN FRANCISCO –
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Meta → unveil → AI
Meta on Oct 15 launched a new open-weight AI model which it claims rivals, and in some cases outperforms, similar products from leading Chinese developers.
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it → launch → developers
Muse Spark Open “is the most capable US open-weight model to date”, Meta’s chief of AI Alexandr Wang wrote on X.
Unlike with so-called closed models – such as Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT – developers can download the parameters, or weights, of an open-weight model and then customise it.
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developers → write → it
Chinese developers have emerged as dominant players in the open-weight market for AI models over the past couple of years.
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developers → emerge → years
Alibaba’s Qwen, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and Z.ai’s GLM models have been considered open-weight frontrunners globally, but Meta claims its new open model now competes on a similar level.
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model → consider → level
“Built for coding and agentic work”, Muse Spark Open “excels at long-horizon tasks, complex software engineering, and multi-step reasoning”, Meta said in a blogpost, adding that “strong safeguards” have been integrated into the new model.
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safeguards → build → model
Muse Spark Open is also “optimised” to run on Apple’s advanced M5 Ultra chips, Meta said, signalling an unusual partnership between the two tech giants.
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Meta → optimise → giants
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg wrote on X that the new model “runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work” with Apple and its new chief executive John Ternus.
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model → write → Apple
Ternus, who took over as Apple’s chief from Tim Cook in September, responded that it is “amazing to run a model of Muse Spark Open’s calibre and scale this efficiently, right from your desk.
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it → take → desk
Mac Studio keeps pushing the boundaries of on-device AI!”
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Studio → push → AI
Muse Spark Open still requires significant computing power, though.
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Open → require → power
Users can run the model on two Mac Studios with M5 Ultra chips to create a “supercomputer” on their own desktop, Meta said.
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Meta → run → desktop
The launch comes just days after Meta announced its newest closed model.
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Meta → come → model
On Oct 12, the company unveiled two new “frontier” models called Wonder and Wonder Full, which the company claimed rival the most advanced versions of ChatGPT and Claude.
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company → unveil → ChatGPT
Meta’s AI efforts were initially focused on open models, but more recently Zuckerberg has pushed the company to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Zuckerberg → focus → OpenAI
Meta launched its Spark model in April, marking a departure from its open-source model known as Llama, which lagged behind the rest of the industry.
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which → launch → industry
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