Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What Meta actually shipped A 30B agent model under Apache 2.0 — released 10 August 2026, weights on Hugging Face at meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B. Apache 2.0 is an OSI-approved permissive licence, a different legal object from the Llama community licences Meta shipped previously. Built for agent work, not chat — multimodal input through a dedicated perception encoder, tool use and function calling, multi-step reasoning with failure recovery, 100-plus languages, variable reasoning-effort levels. Quantised to roughly 4-bit — the K-Quant-17GB variant keeps weights under 20 GB, with minimal to no degradation on agentic tasks by Meta's own account. DFlash speculative decoding — 3.1x on an RTX 5090, 1.8x on an M5 Max, 1.5x on an M4 Max. No published context window — for an agent model, the most…
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