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Meta teams up with Apple on local AI as Muse Spark Open runs on Macs

Meta has released its open-weight AI model Muse Spark Open and has also partnered with Apple, despite a strained relationship. Meta suggested a local setup linking two Mac Studio systems with M5 Ultra chips and 512GB of unified memory each. The Wall Street Journal reported Apple updated its MLX AI tools to help the model run smoothly on Macs. Meta AI chief Alexander Wang said the companies are seeking productive ways to collaborate.

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China AI startup Naive AI bets on mid and post-training to compete in LLMs

Chinese AI model startup Naive AI, founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor, has been valued at more than $1.4 billion and raised $400 million from Tencent and others in three funding rounds, The Information reported. Based in Beijing, it plans to release its first large language model this month as an open-weight model. The company is led by professor Dai Zhipeng and is focusing on improving model performance through mid-training and post-training techniques.

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Why Nvidia wants to develop even large AI models itself

Nvidia is speeding up its push to develop and distribute its own open-source AI models as part of an effort to expand hardware demand, although some see a risk of competition with AI companies that buy its chips. The Information reported Nvidia is developing the open-source large language model Nemotron 4 with at least 1 trillion parameters. Nvidia has also rolled out lightweight models and free routing software and increased spending on computing resources through cloud contracts.