Meta's new model wants "deep access" to your personal life...

Fireship

Summary

Meta has unexpectedly released Muse Glimmer, a free and open-source 30-billion parameter agentic model under an Apache 2.0 license. This model is small enough to run on personal computers but requires "deep access" to personal data, raising significant privacy concerns. This marks a notable shift for Meta, which previously locked down its Llama models and released the closed-source Muse Spark. The video delves into how Meta achieved this by shrinking the model using distillation, quantization, and speculative decoding. It also critically examines the sincerity of Mark Zuckerberg's open-source pivot, contrasting it with his past actions and recent controversies, and discusses his manifesto on AI risk and open-source principles.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Meta's Unexpected Open-Source Release
  2. 0:11Introducing Muse Glimmer, an Agentic Model
  3. 0:34Muse Glimmer's Capabilities and Privacy Concerns
  4. 0:59The Code Report Introduction
  5. 1:03Meta's Shifting Open-Source Stance
  6. 1:15The Disappointing Llama 4 Release
  7. 1:45Zuckerberg's Billion-Dollar Response
  8. 2:03The Rise of Meta Superintelligence Labs
  9. 2:33The Launch of Muse Glimmer
  10. 2:36Distillation: Shrinking Muse Spark
  11. 3:03Muse Glimmer's Performance and Benchmarks
  12. 3:18Running Glimmer on Consumer GPUs
  13. 3:52Zuckerberg's AI Manifesto and Philosophy
  14. 4:27Is Meta's Open-Source Arc Sincere?
  15. 4:43OpenRouter: Accessing Every LLM

Topics covered

  • Meta's Open-Source AI Strategy
  • Muse Glimmer Model Specifications

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Transcript excerpt

On Monday, the company that spent the last year starving Llama, poaching researchers with nine figure Zuck bucks, and locking its new models behind a Facebook auth page, just released a free and open source model under the Apache 2.0 license. It's called Muse Glimmer, a name I believe was inspired by Zuck's fan fiction My Little Pony character, and it's a 30 billion parameter agentic model that's small enough to run on your poverty spec PC. That means you can now have an always-on mini Zuck agent living rent-free in your gaming PC, reading your email, managing your calendar, and using your data to overthrow local elections in Middle America. And according to Meta, an agent like that needs deep access to personal contacts, which is a sentence they've been dreaming about writing since 2004. Except this time, the surveillance can run entirely on your own hardware. In today's video, we'll fi…