Meta has unveiled Muse Glimmer, a multimodal artificial intelligence model designed to run locally on users' devices while maintaining agentic capabilities. The model represents Meta's push to democratize advanced AI technology by releasing it as open source, allowing developers and researchers to deploy, modify, and build upon the technology without relying on cloud infrastructure. Muse Glimmer distinguishes itself through its combination of local execution, agentic functionality—enabling the model to take autonomous actions—and multimodal processing capabilities spanning text, images, and other data types. The open-source release positions Meta as a competitor in the rapidly evolving landscape of accessible, edge-deployable AI models, where companies are increasingly prioritizing models that can operate independently without constant server communication.