Meta's Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter AI model that runs on a single consumer GPU under 20 GB, open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.

The need for at least 24GB of VRAM to run Muse Glimmer is just one factor that makes its value challenging to determine.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI models to compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on…