Meta Platforms introduced a new artificial intelligence model, Muse Glimmer, that is light enough to run on a single computer, allowing users to download and customise the technology. The model is a distilled version of the company’s Muse Spark 1.2 model, designed with a focus on efficiency to minimise system requirements, Meta said on Monday (Aug 10). At 30 billion parameters, the Muse Glimmer is “small enough” to need only one graphics card to power its work, which will primarily involve agent-like AI tasks such as schedule management and file organisation. The weights for Muse Glimmer will be available on Hugging Face, and Meta also intends to make the weights for a version of the more powerful Muse Spark available. The release under a permissive licence mirrors competition in China, where startups such as DeepSeek and Moonshot, along with Internet giant Alibaba, have adopted the practice. Along with US peers Amazon.com, Alphabet and Microsoft, Meta has committed more than US$2 trillion to expanding its capabilities. It is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models. California-based Meta also said on Monday that it intends to set up a US$1 billion fund to invest in US communities where Meta owns and operates data centres.