# Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source

DevFeed: [Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/meta-is-back-with-muse-glimmer-local-agentic-multimodal-and-open-source-7362.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/muse-glimmer>)

Author: Pedro Cuenca; merve; ben burtenshaw; Aritra Roy Gosthipaty

Published: 2026-08-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vlm.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [hub](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hub.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/images.md>), [llama-cpp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llama-cpp.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [local](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local.md>), [meta](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/meta.md>), [model](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/model.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [muse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/muse.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [videos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/videos.md>), [vllm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vllm.md>), [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlm.md>), [vlms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlms.md>)

## AI overview

Hugging Face presents Muse Glimmer, a local, agentic, multimodal, open-source 30B-parameter vision-language model developed with Meta. The article outlines its vision and language architecture, benchmark context, optional speculative decoding for faster generation, and support for both images and videos.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.