Meta launches new AI model
Reuters
..... Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberger called for lower U.S. barriers for open-source AI to better complete with Chinese rivals as the social media giant released a new open-weight model on August 10 [2026] and said more would follow soon.
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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.
..... "We've got even bigger models hat are coming soon," 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.
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"The notion AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently problematic."
..... Zuckerberg's statement marks the latest show of support for open-weight AI, which is gaining traction as businesses grow wary of ballooning AI bills and worry about recent cybersecurity incidents involving models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta.
..... Open-weight models are typically cheaper than leading models from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. They also come with publicly accessible core components for easy customization unlike closed models that companies keep fully under their control.
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Those controls are in the spotlight after Hugging Face, the AI coding collaboration hacked by a rogue OpenAI model, was forced to use a Chinese open-weight mode to defend against the attack because closed-source models have curbs on cybersecurity use.
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Chinese startups are lading the race for open-weight models, with Moonshot's Kimi K3, Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max and DeepSeek's V4-Flash rivaling the performance of top U.S. system. By contrast, the leading models from U.S. developers OpenAI. anthropic and Alphabet's Google are closed-weight.
..... Shares of Meta, which have fallen about 10% so far this year, [2026] were up nearly 3% in premarket trading on August 10. [2026]
..... Meta also plans to release the weights of Muse Spark 1.2, its most advanced model, built by a costly super-intelligence team it formed last year [2025] to claw its way back into the AI race.
.... The company has long supported open models and was among the only U.S tech firms to release such models before poor reception for its Llama 4 last year [2025] forced a change in strategy.
..... In the August 10 [2026] wide-ranging AI essay. Zucherberg also unveiled a new $1 billion fund that aims to ease fears about the impact of this data center built-out by offering support to communities,
..... "One significant disadvantage that the U.S. has compared to countries like China is that it is more difficult to build infrastructure here, Zuckerberg said.