Meta Reenters Open AI Model Race with Compact Muse Glimmer
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model that can run on a single consumer GPU, marking the company's return to open models after a year-long hiatus. This move is seen as a strategic effort to regain ground in the AI research community and challenge rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, the first open model from its new Superintelligence Labs. It's a 30B agent model that runs on consumer hardware once the weights are compressed, needing less than 20 GB of memory. In an accompanying essay, Mark Zuckerberg mounts an aggressive defense of distilling other labs' models and calls for fewer restrictions on US labs, a direct counterpunch at OpenAI and Anthropic. An open-weight version of Muse Spark 1.2 should follow soon, according to the Wall Street Journal. The article Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg's plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction appeared first on The Decoder.