llama.cpp merges Muse Spark Open (816B-A42B) text, vision and audio support in 4 hours
jacek2023 · reddit · 2026-10-16
llama.cpp merged PR #30616 adding support for Muse Spark Open, covering text, vision and audio, roughly 4 hours after submission. The model ships as Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B GGUF on Hugging Face with 816B total parameters and 42B active (apparently MoE), targeting the local inference community.
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