Scott Bessent endorses Meta’s Muse Glimmer as win for innovation

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has thrown his weight behind Meta’s release of Muse Glimmer, a new open-source AI model, calling it a win for American innovation and a bulwark against foreign intellectual property theft. The endorsement ties together two threads that rarely share the same sentence: open-source software philosophy and national security strategy. Meta launched Muse Glimmer on August 10, 2026, a 30-billion-parameter dense multimodal model built to run locally on consumer-grade GPUs. It ships under the Apache 2.0 license, meaning anyone can use, modify, and distribute it without paying Meta a dime. What Muse Glimmer actually does The model is designed for what the AI community calls “agentic workloads,” tasks that run for extended periods, make decisions, and recover from failures without constant human babysitting. Muse Glimmer supports a context window of more than 120,000 tokens, giving it the ability to hold large amounts of information in working memory during a single session. That context length puts it in competitive territory with several leading commercial models, but with a critical distinction: it runs on hardware people already own. Meta engineered the...