Meta has released Muse Glimmer, the first open model from its new Superintelligence Labs. It's a 30B agent model that runs on consumer hardware once the weights are compressed, needing less than 20 GB of memory. In an accompanying essay, Mark Zuckerberg mounts an aggressive defense of distilling other labs' models and calls for fewer restrictions on US labs, a direct counterpunch at OpenAI and Anthropic. An open-weight version of Muse Spark 1.2 should follow soon, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI models to compete with Chinese rivals.

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…

Meta released Muse Glimmer on 10 August 2026, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight agentic model published under an Apache 2.0 licence. Quantised to under 20GB, it runs local agents…