Meta’s Muse Spark Open Model Brings 1M-Token Context Window, Agentic AI Workflows to Apple Mac Studio

Gadgets360 - Oct 16, 2026

Meta on Thursday announced a new open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) model for coding, software development, and complex, multi-step tasks. The model, called Muse Spark Open, is said to have hundreds of billions of parameters and a context window that can handle large amounts of information. Meta has partnered with Apple to bring the model to Mac Studio desktops ...

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