Apple's measured speeds set against hosted token prices show when two Mac Studios running Meta's Muse Spark Open pay for themselves, and where they fall short.
Apple and Meta, rivals that have fought over privacy for years, worked together for months to run Meta’s new open-weight Muse Spark Open locally on M5 Ultra Mac Studio desktops, announced Oct. 15. Apple updated its MLX software so two linked machines with 512GB of memory each, or four with 256GB, can hold the model. The companies had struck no public partnership since Apple removed system-level Facebook integration from the iPhone in 2017.
What Changed
* Apple and Meta worked together for several months so Meta's open-weight Muse Spark Open runs locally on linked M5
Moli is a Rust headless browser that hands AI agents a web page as Markdown without drawing it. We ran v1.1.16: ten JavaScript-rendered quotes in 0.62 seconds on a Mac Studio. Repo Radar #20 covers setup, Playwright, the click failures we hit, and the benchmark fine print.
Before your team adopts or ships a desktop app, the coding agent you already pay for can inspect what it does. This walkthrough uses REA to analyze an Electron example, trace one feature to file and line, and check the rebuilt result against the original, with the limits stated.
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