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Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race

Meta's Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens of context. It performs roughly on par with the most capable open-weight Chinese AI models on benchmarks and is optimized to run locally on Apple's M5 Ultra.

Tarun Mottlia

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Muse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race
Image: Muse Spark Open benchmarked against other open models including Inkling, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Qwen 3.8, GLM 5.3, and Kimi K3. Meta says the model leads in Agentic, Knowledge & Reasoning, and Multimodal categories but falls behind some competitors on coding benchmarks. | Image: Meta

After its Llama series, Meta is returning to open-weight territory with Muse Spark Open. Meta calls it the most capable US open-weight model, built for coding and agentic tasks, with 816 billion parameters (42 billion active), up to one million tokens of context, and support for text, image, video, and audio. On benchmarks like JobBench, MCP-Atlas, HLE-Diamond, and ZeroBench, Meta says it scores well ahead of Qwen 3.8, GLM 5.3, and Kimi K3 in several categories but still falls well…

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