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What's the Earnings Limit for Offering Muse Spark?

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Alex Volkov says a company can offer Muse Spark as long as yearly revenue stays under $20 million. He reads a restriction that applies where third-party outputs of such models, models of service, and the aggregate gross revenue of the licensee and its affiliates exceed $20 million, or the equivalent, during any consecutive 12-month period. Alex Volkov says there is probably a license once revenue crosses that line, and he does not say what that license requires.

Meta put out two huge releases the same week. Muse Wonder and Wonderful landed first, and Alex Volkov says folks are split on them a little bit. Then Meta released the open source version, Muse Spark, at 816 billion parameters with 42 billion active. Alex Volkov is pretty sure companies will offer Muse Spark. He calls Muse Spark probably one of the best computer use models and says Muse Spark will be great for generating data. In the same stretch he says Llama is back, and that the promise of opening an older Grok when a new Grok ships does not often come to fruition. He does not remember the last time Grok was open source.

Under $20 million a year, Alex Volkov says you can just offer Muse Spark. The only thing he adds above that revenue mark is that there is probably a license.

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