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11 Aug 2026, 7:56 AM	Simon Willison	7.5	Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B parameter open-weights model under a clean Apache 2.0 license, optimized for agentic task completion, tool use, and multi-step reasoning. Simon Willison tested it locally via LM Studio (18.16 GB quantized), ran it as a coding agent against a Datasette checkout, and confirmed it works as a vision model for image description. Why: If you want a locally-runnable model for agentic coding and tool-use workflows, Muse Glimmer's Apache 2.0 license removes the Llama licensing friction for commercial use, and its 30B size means it fits on machines with 32GB+ RAM alongside other applications. Test it with your own coding-agent scaffolding before committing—Willison needed a patch for LLM 0.32 compatibility, so expect integration rough edges. open-weights local-llm agentic-coding apache-2.0 meta vision-model

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11 Aug 2026, 7:56 AM

Simon Willison

7.5

Introducing Muse Glimmer

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B parameter open-weights model under a clean Apache 2.0 license, optimized for agentic task completion, tool use, and multi-step reasoning. Simon Willison tested it locally via LM Studio (18.16 GB quantized), ran it as a coding agent against a Datasette checkout, and confirmed it works as a vision model for image description.

Why: If you want a locally-runnable model for agentic coding and tool-use workflows, Muse Glimmer's Apache 2.0 license removes the Llama licensing friction for commercial use, and its 30B size means it fits on machines with 32GB+ RAM alongside other applications. Test it with your own coding-agent scaffolding before committing—Willison needed a patch for LLM 0.32 compatibility, so expect integration rough edges.