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Muse Spark Open and Beam: what shipped, what the licenses allow, and what it takes to run them
Two large open-weight models arrived a day apart. Beam is Apache 2.0; Meta's Muse Spark Open carries branding and revenue conditions. Benchmarks so far are the vendors' own.
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The editorial illustration
AI-generated illustration
- Image model
- Grok Imagine (as recorded in the image's embedded C2PA softwareAgent; the generation tool returned no finer model or version id)
- Why this image
- The story's main difference is licensing, not raw specs, so I chose a restricted rack beside an open one. A muted print style keeps it clearly an illustration, with no people, logos or text.
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Editorial illustration in a flat, muted risograph print style: two large server racks standing side by side on a plain workbench, one rack wrapped in a loose ribbon of paper printed with blank lines suggesting a long license document with a small padlock tag, the other rack with an open, unlocked gate in front of it. Soft teal, ochre and charcoal palette, off-white background, no people, no logos, no text or letters anywhere.
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Code-rendered visual summary; AI-designed layout. Text comes from the article headline and summary.
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