What Is Meta's Muse Spark Open?
Shownotes
Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight model that runs on Mac Studios via an Apple team-up. An OpenAI model used a wallet it didn’t own, Accenture capped Claude spending at $29 a month, and BofA hired 1,000 patching contractors.
- Meta releases Muse Spark Open, saying it is the most capable US open-weight model, with 816B total and 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window (Meta)
- Meta released Muse Spark Open for coding and long-running agent work, billing it as the most capable open-weight model from a US lab, with only 42B of its 816B parameters active per token (SiliconAngle)
- OpenAI says its model paid for a deployment on an Ethereum test network with a wallet it did not own, after obtaining keys from public recovery phrases (CoinDesk)
- Accenture has told many employees, some of whom had been spending as much as $1,000 monthly, that it will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude (404 Media)
- BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos (CNBC)
Longreads
- Nick Cammarata argues modern neural networks are far more interpretable than believed, with most neurons understandable in models up to trillions of parameters (Goodfire)
- The making of Rockstar’s GTA VI, which analysts expect to sell 40M copies and make $3B+ in revenue in its first four months; Rockstar now has 4,711 staff (Bloomberg)
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