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Meta renews open-source AI push as Apple seeks China memory chips
Meta’s CEO said the company will resume releasing open-source AI models, while Apple is testing China’s CXMT memory chips amid an AI driven memory supply crunch.
Meta Platforms is signaling a broad push for artificial intelligence while Apple looks to ease a separate hardware bottleneck, according to coverage summarized by Yahoo Finance.
Yahoo Finance reports that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a letter published August 10, argued that AI should not be controlled by a handful of companies or governments. Zuckerberg said Meta will start releasing open-source AI models again, including the open weight Muse Glimmer model, a 30 billion parameter system intended to run on a single consumer GPU, with plans to open the weights on Muse Spark 1.2 soon.
At the same time, Yahoo Finance says the Wall Street Journal reported on August 9 that Apple has been testing memory chips from China’s CXMT for use in iPhones and MacBooks as it tries to address a costly memory supply crunch. The report also says memory chip costs tied to AI demand have already forced Apple to raise prices globally, and that any sourcing deal could carry political risk given U.S. export rules.
Yahoo Finance adds that Zuckerberg’s letter frames Meta’s effort as a safeguard against any single actor gaining too much control over superintelligent AI. It also notes Meta’s plan for a $1 billion “Future is for Everyone Fund” aimed at data center host communities, while the report highlights that the letter offers investors limited clarity on how Meta’s large AI spending will translate into monetization.