Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI to better compete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on Monday and said more would follow soon. The new model, Muse Glimmer, is smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is instead designed to run agentic tasks on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card, aiming to tap demand for AI systems that run directly on people’s devices. “In the coming weeks, we are also going to open the weights for MuseSpark 1.2, our latest foundation model and one of the leading models in the world. And we’ve got even bigger models that are coming soon too,” Zuckerberg said in a video post accompanying his 14-page essay titled “The Future is for Everyone” in which he championed spreading AI rather than leaving it in the hands of a few.
