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Meta and Apple have teamed up on Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model TechCrunch says will run locally on Apple silicon.

That gives Mac users a potential way to run this model on their own machines, rather than relying only on a remote service. The report’s supplied details do not specify which Macs are supported or what performance to expect, so the practical limits remain to be seen. Local AI is a useful promise; the hardware requirements will decide how many people can actually use it.

Discuss: Would you run an AI model locally for greater control, even if it meant buying more capable hardware?

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