Release2026-08-10
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model built for agent tasks that runs on a single consumer graphics card or a recent Mac, and published the weights under a permissive Apache 2.0 licence. It handles tool calls, code, images and more than 100 languages, and works without an internet connection. Compressed versions fit in the memory of ordinary hardware, and integrations with common local runtimes are described as arriving in the coming days.
What changed
Meta's agent-capable models required cloud infrastructure and a network connection to run.
What it unlocks
Running an agent that calls tools, reads screenshots and writes code entirely on a laptop or desktop, offline.
- 30 billion parameters
- under 20 GB after 4-bit compression
- 3.1x faster decoding on RTX 5090
- runs in 24-32 GB memory
What you need to act on it
- a single consumer GPU or recent Mac with 24-32 GB of memory
- downloading the weights from Hugging Face
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