Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI models to better compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on Monday and said it plans to launch more such models soon.

He says the US needed to rethink policies if domestic firms were to lead in open-weight models.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Bloomberg/Getty Images Meta is launching a new agentic AI model, Muse Glimmer, which it says can run on a laptop. The model is open-weights, which means users can download and modify it. Meta also plans to release an open-weight version of Muse Spark, its most powerful AI model. Mark Zucker

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows support for open-weight AI, which is gaining traction as businesses grow wary of ballooning AI bills and worry about recent cybersecurity incidents involving models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta

Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push  Reuters

Aug 10 : 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 Monday.The new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is instead designed for agentic tasks and can

Meta’s founder casts OpenAI and Anthropic as foils in his pitch for powerful AI to become more freely available

Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the recent layoffs alongside substantial investments in artificial intelligence. Despite reporting impressive revenue growth, the surge in expenses, particularly from severance and legal fees, negatively influenced the second quarter's operating income. The company is committed to a