Meta Superintelligence Labs published Muse Glimmer on 10 August 2026, a 30-billion-parameter dense model with open weights under an Apache 2.0 licence, built to run always-on local agents on a single consumer graphics card. The weights are live on Hugging Face today. Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, set the hardware bar in a public post, saying Muse Glimmer "can run on 24GB of VRAM without losing agentic reliability". That figure puts the model inside one mid-range desktop card, and Wang added that open weights for Muse Spark 1.2, Meta's current frontier model, follow soon. Four months after Meta shipped its first fully closed model, the company is handing weights back to developers, and doing it in the middle of a Washington argument about whether that should stay legal.Muse Glimmer specifications: parameters, licence and hardwareAbout The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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