New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- cutting-edge AI does not have to live behind a paywall.

Muse Glimmer is available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning developers and companies can take it, modify it, and build on top of it without paying Meta a fee or requesting permission. The model operates at roughly four-bit precision, keeping its memory footprint under 20 gigabytes, a threshold cleared by any gaming laptop sold in the last two years. According to Meta's announcement, it handles multi-step agent workflows, tool use, multimodal inputs, failure recovery, and long-context tasks without requiring a cloud connection. Running models locally, the company stated, "enables you to use AI anywhere, anytime, with or without an internet con...