Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is designed for agentic tasks. It can run on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card, aiming to tap into demand for artificial intelligence (AI) systems that run directly on people's devices.

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.

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…