Mark Zuckerberg publicly thanked Apple's new CEO, John Ternus, on October 15 for supplying the Mac Studios needed to run Meta's latest AI model, and he tagged Ternus on X rather than Threads. Meta's free-to-download Muse Spark Open model has 816 billion parameters and ran on two or four Mac Studios with M5 Ultra chips in Apple's tests, where the Mac Studio with that chip starts at $5,499 before extra memory. Ternus replied the same day, while Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang told Axios the project took months and credited former Apple alum Daniel Gross with smoothing relations. The two companies have been at odds since Apple's 2021 privacy changes cut Meta's ad tracking, with Meta estimating about $10 billion in lost 2022 revenue and its shares falling 26% the next day. CNBC reported that neither company has said whether more joint projects are coming, and they remain rivals in devices.
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| Market | US stocks |
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| Sector | Information Technology |
| Industry | Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals |
| Market cap | $5.0T |
| Close on 10/19/2026 | 342.94 |
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