Meta returns to open source with Muse Glimmer, an Apache 2.0 licensed 30B parameter LLM available now
Meta today released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model designed to run autonomous AI agents directly on consumer hardware — pushing agentic workloads that normally depend on cloud infrastructure onto high-end Macs and PCs.
Just as notable as what the model does is how it's licensed. Glimmer arrives under the permissive, industry-standard Apache 2.0 open source license — the company's first fully open release since it succeeded its open-weight Llama family in April with the proprietary Muse Spark.
In fact, Muse Glimmer launches today with a more permissive license than Llama ever carried. Llama's bespoke community license drew years of criticism for restrictions like its 700-million-monthly-user cutoff; Apache 2.0 has no such strings, permitting unrestricted commercial use, modification and redistribution.
The weights are available on Hugging Face now. Wang said support is rolling out this week through Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, SGLang, Together AI, Fireworks AI and OpenRouter,...
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