Reality check
Can You Run Muse Spark Open Locally? Yes on One Mac Studio, Not Through Ollama
Meta's 816B open model runs on one Mac Studio from 176GB. Ollama's version is cloud-only, the license has strings, and smaller models score higher.
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Reality check
Meta's 816B open model runs on one Mac Studio from 176GB. Ollama's version is cloud-only, the license has strings, and smaller models score higher.
Buying guide
Twelve open-weight models worth running in September 2026, ranked by what they can do and what their licenses let you do with it. Qwen3.8-27B leads the single-GPU class, GLM-5.3 and Qwen3.8-2.4T lead the field, and the gap to the closed frontier is...