Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer

After seemingly abandoning its open source AI roots this spring, Meta offered enterprises a glimmer of hope on Monday with the launch of its first open weights model in more than a year. Unveiled on Monday, Muse Glimmer is a 30 billion-parameter LLM distilled from the Social network's larger, and for now proprietary, Muse Spark model. Glimmer arrives as American tech companies grapple with a crisis over the proliferation of Chinese open weights models and a call for domestically-created alternatives. Meta built its reputation on the back of open weights model development beginning with the Llama herd back in 2023. But after Llama 4 flopped and the company restructured its AI group, critics questioned CEO Mark Zuckerberg's commitment to...

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