Meta launches open-weight Muse Glimmer AI model, plans to open Muse Spark weights

The new model, Muse Glimmer, is smaller than leading ​AI models from rivals and is instead designed to run agentic tasks on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card, ‌aiming to tap demand for AI systems that run directly on people’s devices.

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]

Even the White House took notice of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI manifesto. Others focused on the release of Meta's open-weight model.

Meta is escalating the debate over open versus closed AI with Muse Glimmer, a new downloadable model designed to run on a personal computer using a single GPU. The release, accompanied by a new essay from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, underscores Meta's push for more accessible and customizable AI as low-cost open models from China intensify pressure on rivals including OpenAI and Anthropic. Bloomberg's Kurt Wagner joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

The release of Muse Glimmer, a model that can be freely downloaded and modified, is likely to intensify a debate over whether A.I. should be restricted.

Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.

New model called Muse Glimmer is designed to run agentic tasks on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card

Meta launched Muse Glimmer and plans to release Muse Spark 1.2 weights as Zuckerberg pushes for U.S. leadership in open AI.

The social media giant plans to release an open-weight version of Muse Spark, its most powerful AI model, soon, Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday.

The new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is instead designed for agentic tasks, running on a single graphics card.

Muse Glimmer, is ‌much smaller than leading AI models and is instead ​designed for agentic tasks and can run on a Mac ⁠or PC with a single graphics card, aiming to tap demand for AI systems that run directly on people’s devices.