llama.cpp Adds Support for Muse Spark Open 816B Within 30 Minutes of Release

Just about 30 minutes after Meta released the multimodal Muse Spark Open 816B (A42B activated), llama.cpp contributor ngxson shipped GGUF quantized support via PR #30616, enabling text, vision and audio modalities to run locally; the PR was merged within roughly four hours.

2026-10-16 ~ 2026-10-16 · 3 related posts

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• llama.cpp merges Muse Spark Open (816B-A42B) text, vision and audio support in 4 hours — jacek2023 · 2026-10-16