Meta releases Muse Glimmer: open-source multimodal agentic model
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter multimodal model distilled from Muse, under Apache 2.0. Optimized for local agentic use cases like coding and document analysis, it launches with day-0 support in transformers, llama.cpp, vLLM, and Inference Endpoints. Benchmarks show strong agentic performance, often beating Gemma4 and Qwen3.6.
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