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Muse Glimmer 30B
Meta's current open-weight model and the practical successor to the Llama line for local deployment. An agentic model built for tool use and multi-step task completion, and Meta's first language model under a standard OSI-approved licence.
- Modality
- Text
- License
- Apache 2.0 (Open)
- Parameter size
- ~30B dense (including a ~1.8B vision encoder)
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens 131,072+ tokens. Published under the meta-models Hugging Face org, not meta-llama.
- Released
- August 10, 2026
- Last verified
- September 8, 2026
- Runs locally
- Yes
- Also handles
- vision, reasoning
Strengths
- Apache 2.0 — Meta's first language model under a standard OSI-approved licence rather than the bespoke Llama Community License
- Runs on a single 24GB+ consumer GPU, filling the local-deployment slot Llama 4 left empty
- Built end-to-end for agentic work: reliable tool use and function calling across extended workflows
- Multimodal text and image, with support for 100+ languages
Weaknesses
- Not optimised for video — video input is processed as individual frames
- Can still make errors in multi-step reasoning, and may produce inaccurate or biased responses
- Performance degrades on languages outside the strongly supported set
- No audio input or output
Try it
| Where | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | weights | Apache 2.0; GGUF and ExecuTorch builds also published |
Used in solutions
Official sources
- Model card model
- Announcement announcement
Change log
- — Initial entry. Released 2026-08-10 under the new meta-models Hugging Face org. Meta's open-weight work has moved off the Llama name — there is no Llama 5, and the closed-weight Muse Spark (2026-04-08) replaced Llama as Meta's flagship. Llama 3.1 8B is kept in the catalog because Llama 4's smallest model is 109B, leaving Muse Glimmer as the only current Meta option for a single consumer GPU.
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