Meta's 'open source' Muse Glimmer model can run on a single computer

Meta has released a new slimmed down 'open source' AI model that's light enough to run on a single computer.

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

The 30-billion-parameter Muse Glimmer model is available for free download on Hugging Face and requires only a single consumer GPU

Meta released a new artificial intelligence model Monday as CEO Mark Zuckerberg called on Washington to lower barriers for US open-source developers to help them beat Chinese rivals.

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

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 or not.

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted th