Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang reveals the man who made the ‘impossible’ possible between Apple and Meta

Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang has revealed that former Apple executive Daniel Gross played a key role in bringing the iPhone-maker and Meta together for an AI collaboration. After years of disagreements, the two companies are now working together to run Meta’s new Muse Spark Open AI model on Apple’s high-end Mac Studio computers. Their collaboration allows Muse Spark Open, which has 816 billion parameters, to run across two or four connected Mac Studios powered by Apple’s M5 Ultra chips, using Apple’s MLX framework. Alexandr Wang told Axios that Gross, who now works at Meta, helped the two sides work together. Wang revealed that the two companies had been working together for several months.