Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter model that fits in the memory of two Mac Studios with M5 Ultra chips. The surprise: Apple helped design it, after years of friction between the two firms.
Meta unveiled Muse Wonder, its first true frontier AI model. On the Artificial Analysis index it beat GPT and Gemini, losing only to Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 — and it costs about the same as the leaders.
Meta was set to finalize nearly 8,000 layoffs on July 22. Employees are suing, claiming an algorithm called Checkpoint helped pick who got cut without accounting for medical or parental leave.
A Reuters scoop reveals Meta's internal memo: Iris, its first in-house AI accelerator, enters mass production in September. Designed with Broadcom, built at TSMC, targeting 14 GW of compute by 2027.
Beijing ordered the deal reversed — Meta complied. The $2B acquisition of Manus, a Chinese-founded agentic AI startup, is being unwound. Founders are now seeking $1B to buy it back.
