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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Technology

Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI models to better compete with ​Chinese rivals as the social media giant ​released a new open-weight model on Monday and said it plans to launch ​more such models soon.

The new model, Muse Glimmer, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is instead designed for agentic tasks and can run on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card, aiming to tap demand for ‌AI systems that run ⁠directly ⁠on people's devices.

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