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Meta releases 816-billion-parameter open-weight Muse Spark OpenThe natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model has 816 billion total parameters, 42 billion active parameters and a one-million-token context window. Meta positions it for coding, long-horizon agentic work and multimodal reasoning, with weights available through major model hubs and inference providers.→Perplexity introduces hybrid cloud-and-local AI execution on MacPerplexity introduced Hybrid Compute in its Mac app, splitting Computer tasks between cloud models for reasoning, search and planning and local models for sensitive files and on-device actions. Its privacy gate can mask information, keep it local, refuse the action or request consent before data leaves the device; the feature requires an Apple silicon Mac with at least 24GB of unified memory.→