Meta Releases Muse Glimmer and Returns to Open AI Models
Aug 11, 2026
Language Models
Meta Releases Muse Glimmer for Local AI Agents
August 11, 2026
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30 billion parameter open model licensed under Apache 2.0 and designed to run on a single GPU for local AI agent tasks.
Meta Platforms, Inc. has released Muse Glimmer, a 30 billion parameter open model for local AI agents, announced on its developer website. The model is licensed under Apache 2.0 and is designed to run on a single GPU for tool use, long tasks, and failure recovery.
Muse Glimmer supports persistent state across restarts and memory management for sessions that run for hours. Meta lists support materials for prompting, quantization, speculative decoding, vLLM, llama.cpp, and ExecuTorch.
Meta says the full model card is available on Hugging Face. Local deployment paths also include SGLang and NVIDIA NIM containers.
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