Meta Ships 'Muse Glimmer,' a 30B Open-Weight Agentic Model That Runs on One Consumer GPU

Apache 2.0, competitive on SWE-Bench, and built for always-on local agents — Meta is betting that open weights are the wedge against OpenAI and Anthropic.

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built specifically for agentic workflows, according to @sureshkrishna, who noted the key constraint that makes it interesting: it "runs on one consumer GPU." A 30B model that fits on a single card is the difference between an agent you rent by the token and an agent you own and run indefinitely.

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