CNBC 2026-10-15-2
Apple and Meta team up to make Muse AI model run on Mac computers
CNBC's account of the Apple tie-up supplies the hardware half. Muse Spark Open needs 2 to 4 paired Mac Studios, and an M5 Ultra with 256GB starts at $10,799. Alexandr Wang says the open model is meant to pull developers in small and then scale them up, and by his framing memory capacity, not compute, gates local use. That makes sovereign coding a fixed-capex purchase and puts Apple, not NVIDIA, on the default local path for the largest open models.