Meta Brings Powerful AI to the Personal Computer

Meta is escalating the debate over open versus closed AI with Muse Glimmer, a new downloadable model designed to run on a personal computer using a single GPU. The release, accompanied by a new essay from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, underscores Meta's push for more accessible and customizable AI as low-cost open models from China intensify pressure on rivals including OpenAI and Anthropic. Bloomberg's Kurt Wagner joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model

The release of Muse Glimmer, a model that can be freely downloaded and modified, is likely to intensify a debate over whether A.I. should be restricted or not.

By Eli Tan and Mike Isaac

Mark Zuckerberg attacks ‘closed’ AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

Meta’s founder casts OpenAI and Anthropic as foils in his pitch for powerful AI to become more freely available

Meta CEO Zuckerberg lays out open-source vision for AI

As the tech giant Meta launched Muse Glimmer, a new AI model, its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, released a video and an essay calling for open-source AI models as a way for the US to compete with China and support its citizens.

The Guardian view on Meta’s smart glasses: regulators must get on the front foot | Editorial

Privacy needs defending against invasive wearable gadgets. So far, businesses are ahead of the government It is not yet clear to what extent Meta’s new smart glasses will live up to the nickname of “pervert glasses” – bestowed in recognition of the obvious appeal of wearable cameras to voyeurs. The past week has seen rising criticism of the devices, which in the UK have been banned by the pub chain Wetherspoons and the theatre group ATG, as well as restaurants, schools and members’ clubs. The...

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Zuckerberg’s yacht crew did not hear call for help, says spokesperson

A skiff off Alaska coast received help from a nearby cruise ship after Zuckerberg's yacht crew did not respond in time.

Mark Zuckerberg faces questions after yacht failed to respond to Alaska maritime aid call

A spokesperson for Mark Zuckerberg says the crew of the Meta CEO's yacht did not initially hear a radio call for help from a small skiff off the coast of Alaska last week.

Meta to open source its most powerful AI model as it takes swipe at OpenAI, Anthropic

Meta launched Muse Glimmer and plans to release Muse Spark 1.2 weights as Zuckerberg pushes for U.S. leadership in open AI.

Enterprise AI costs hit 2026 low driven by price wars, Chinese open-source models: research

The cost for businesses to run AI models has fallen to a yearly low, according to research by investment bank Jefferies, driven by a heated global price war and a surge in adoption of low-cost Chinese open-source tools, such as those from DeepSeek. Average inference prices – measured per million tokens, or chunks of data handled by a model – ranged between US$1.16 and US$1.18 from August 6 to 8. That marked the lowest level recorded this year, Jefferies said on Monday, citing data from US...

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Mark Zuckerberg takes on the AI doomers in 6,500-word essay

Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a response to the gloom about artificial intelligence coming from both inside and outside the industry: AI will be helpful for both the economy and society.

By Steve Goldstein

3 key details about what Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the AI future would look like for you

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg laid out his vision for an AI future built around personal superintelligence. The Meta CEO said personal AI agents could make it easier to start and run smaller companies. "Many ideas that would have been too hard or expensive to try before will now be possible," he wrote. Mark Zuckerberg says the future should come with a personal AI agent that knows you, works for you, and never clocks out. In a 6,50...

$300m Zuckerberg yacht accused of failing to answer stranded boat’s call for help

Passenger on board the Alaska cruise ship that came to stricken skiff’s aid says Zuckerberg’s Launchpad yacht was closer, although the Meta CEO was not on the 387ft vessel at the time

By Owen Scott

Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s Surprised the ‘Discourse’ From AI Companies ‘Is So Filled With Doom’

Mark Zuckerberg wants an AI-powered future for all — and he doesn’t understand what the problem is. In a 6,500-word manifesto titled “The Future is for Everyone,” the Meta CEO laid out the company’s philosophy around AI as one rooted in “individual empowerment as the source of prosperity,” arguing the introduction of artificial superintelligence will transform […]

By Corbin Bolies

Mark Zuckerberg's $300m yacht booed over rescue call; clarification issued

Mark Zuckerberg's superyacht Launchpad faced criticism after a reported failure to assist a stranded boat. The vessel's crew explained they were on a different radio channel and help was already en route. A cruise ship eventually towed the disabled skiff safely back to Farragut Bay. Passengers aboard the cruise ship reportedly booed the yacht after hearing the announcement.

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Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht ‘refused’ to help stranded boat in Alaska: What happened?

Meta's newest open-weight AI model 'Muse Glimmer' launched - Everything you need to know

Meta's Mark Zuckerberg pushed for AI model distillation, or the practice of employing a powerful AI system to train a smaller model.

Mark Zuckerberg's $300 Million Superyacht Criticised For Not Helping Stranded Boat In Alaska

A passenger aboard the cruise ship said that Launchpad had been closer to the stranded boat but declined to assist.

How Israeli startup Irregular was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta: report

Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500 word love letter to AI seeks 'superintelligence for everyone'

Mark Zuckerberg set out his vision for the future of AI as Meta released its newest model.

Meta launches new AI model as Zuckerberg champions open-weight push

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows 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

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Mark Zuckerberg Comes Under Fire For His Yacht Allegedly Failing to Help Stranded Boat

Mark Zuckerberg is taking some heat for his yacht not giving any assistance to a skiff that ran out of fuel ... but the Meta CEO says there's nothing to see here. The drama reportedly began last Monday night when a cruise ship took a detour to help…

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Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, A 30B Model That Runs On A Single Consumer GPU

Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, A 30B Model That Runs On A Single Consumer GPU Meta released Muse Glimmer on Monday, a 30-billion-parameter model built for agent work that fits on a laptop. The company published the model's weights - the trained numbers that make up the model itself, meaning anyone can download it and run it on their own machine - on the model repository Hugging Face, under an Apache 2.0 license that is genuinely permissive, without the usage restrictions Meta atta...

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