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Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 12, 2026Published at 2:11 AM EDT · New York
Meta Opens the Weights of Muse Glimmer and Says Its Flagship Coding Model Will Follow
The 30-billion-parameter multimodal model ships under Apache 2.0 at under 20 gigabytes, days after Meta launched Muse Spark 1.2 and a terminal coding agent built on it.
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal model distilled from its frontier Muse Spark system, under the Apache 2.0 license. The model pairs a language backbone with a dedicated perception encoder, accepts text and image…
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