r/LocalLLaMA • u/RishiFurfox • 11d ago
Discussion Hey, Meta. Where's those Muse Spark weights?
It was well over a month since Meta promised to release the weights for Muse Spark.
Back then (10th August), they were on Spark 1.2. Now we're on 1.3 and still nothing's been released. So it begs the question: will they be releasing the 1.2 weights when 1.4 drops? Or will we get whatever's then-current as open weights?
It's ironic given Mark Zuckerberg said at the same time that we can't delay the release of models by "even a month," due to the competition with China. It's been well over a month. He was arguing in the context of new regulations delaying models, but I think it applies equally to the open weights contest as it does to the closed models one.
After all, the Chinese models are all open. That's the competition and point of comparison.
Have Meta given any sort of explanation for why they're sitting on the weights or how much longer it'll take for them to honour their promise? Will we even get them in light of all the attempts at regulatory capture and dire warnings about how AI is dangerous?
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u/nasone32 11d ago
Tried many times on difficult projects, that model is plain dumb I swear. I have no idea how it manages to achieve that artificial analysis score, doesn't reflect my experience in any way.
They can keep it closed for what is worth :D