LFM3 vs Muse Spark Open: which delivered after 7 days?

Neither has a verdict yet: both are stamped Too early, with fewer than about five solid user reports each.

No. 013 · Liquid AI

LFM3

Day 3 of 7

Too earlyDay 7 verdict

Two days in, only a few first-hand comments exist, and one reports a load failure and a wrong answer.

What they claimed

“a new tri-hybrid architecture and training recipe allow LFM3-1.7B to outperform our previous LFM2.5-2.6B while using 35% fewer parameters.”

? Unclear

“the text model fits in about 1 GB at 4-bit precision.”

? Unclear

“256K context window for the text model.”

? Unclear

No. 007 · Meta

Too earlyDay 7 verdict

Ten days in, nobody independent has run the two-Mac-Studio setup, and Apple still lists the 512GB M5 Ultra as coming in late October.

What they claimed

“Muse Spark Open is the first model in its class to run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework.”

~ Mixed

“Muse Spark Open is available today through API platforms at Baseten, Fireworks AI, Groq, Modal, Nebius, OpenRouter and Together AI.”

? Unclear

“We’re releasing the weights under the Muse Model License with limited commercial terms, which allow many developers to use the model for free.”

? Unclear

“Muse Spark Open is a natively multimodal model with 816B total parameters (42B active) and a 1M-token context window.”

? Unclear

Both stamps come from the public user reports linked on each receipt, under the same method. Verdicts are opinion and are never paid for.

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