You Can (Maybe) Run Meta's Latest AI Model Locally on Your Computer
On Monday, Meta announced its latest AI model: Muse Glimmer. The company isn't necessarily advertising this model as its biggest and best, however. Local AI is much more secure than cloud-based, as your data stays within your system.
- ▪On Monday, Meta announced its latest AI model: Muse Glimmer.
- ▪The company isn't necessarily advertising this model as its biggest and best, however.
- ▪Local AI is much more secure than cloud-based, as your data stays within your system.
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On Monday, Meta announced its latest AI model: Muse Glimmer. The company isn't necessarily advertising this model as its biggest and best, however. While Meta has plenty to say about Muse Glimmer's performance potential, there are two key selling points for the model in the company's eyes: The fact that it's open-weight, and that it's designed to run locally on "consumer" Macs and PCs—though perhaps not on your computer.What is Muse Glimmer?According ot Meta, Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter AI model optimized for "always-on local agent workflows." What that means is Glimmer is designed to run autonomously directly on your machine, rather than outsourcing that processing to the cloud. Local AI is much more secure than cloud-based, as your data stays within your system.
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