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Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong
August 14, 2026
Meta released Glimmer this week as an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware, while keeping its more powerful Muse Spark model behind Meta’s own APIs. The release, paired with Mark Zuckerberg’s letter saying AI should be “for everyone,” underscores Meta’s push for openness even as the excerpt hints at a separate $250M deal that went badly wrong.
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
Source: techcrunch.com