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Meta Open-Weights AI Release Poses No Threat to Anyone

The claim: Meta argues that releasing Muse Spark Open provides the global research community with open access to a frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model, democratising advanced artificial intelligence development across diverse hardware setups.

The reality: Running this monster locally requires eight enterprise H100 GPUs costing over three hundred thousand dollars, meaning your standard MacBook Pro will merely overheat while trying to load the tokenizer.

Why should I care? Could be big
Enterprise research labs will poke at the weights for a week before quietly returning to their proprietary API subscriptions.

Read the original: Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta

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