New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- Meta has launched Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter artificial intelligence model designed to run AI agents locally on consumer computers, allowing developers to build AI tools that can work without continuously relying on cloud infrastructure or internet access.

The model, developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, has also been released with open weights under an Apache 2.0 licence, giving developers access to build and customise applications using it.

Meta said Muse Glimmer has been designed for "always-on local agent workflows" and is small enough to run on a Mac or PC equipped with a single consumer graphics processing unit (GPU).

Running an AI model locally means much of its processing can take place direc...