Meta's new model wants "deep access" to your personal life...
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-source Apache 2.0 agentic model for local deployment
“an agent like that needs deep access to personal context”— Mark Zuckerberg
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion parameter agentic model under the Apache 2.0 license, small enough to run on consumer hardware and designed for always-on personal assistance with deep access to user data. The release marks a reversal from Meta's recent closed-source pivot with Muse Spark, coming after Llama 4's benchmark controversy and Zuckerberg's aggressive talent acquisition spree under the rebranded Meta Super Intelligence Labs. The framing of local, personal-context AI as a feature—rather than a privacy concern—signals a significant strategic positioning shift in the on-device agentic AI race.