ResearchModel releaseAgents & Tool Use · Image, Video & 3D Generation · Training & Scaling2 sources · Oct 17, 2026

Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic Model

We introduce Muse Glimmer, an open-source 30B parameter causal language model with perception encoder, purpose-built for autonomous agentic tasks on consumer hardware.

Key points

  • Muse Glimmer integrates multi-step reasoning, reliable tool use and failure recovery into a single model that runs locally on consumer devices without requiring cloud infrastructure.
  • The model accepts text and image inputs and produces text outputs, was trained on data from over a hundred languages, and is quantized to approximately 4-bit precision for efficient single-GPU inference.
  • Muse Glimmer achieves state-of-the-art performance for its size class on agentic benchmarks, setting a new standard compared to the models of its size: Gemma4-31B and Qwen3.6-27B on tool use, multi-step planning, and agentic task completion.
  • We release the model under the Apache 2.0 license to foster open-source development of capable, safe, local AI agents.

Sources (2)

  • [1]Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic Model
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 17, 11:05 AM
    We introduce Muse Glimmer, an open-source 30B parameter causal language model with perception encoder, purpose-built for autonomous agentic tasks on consumer hardware.
    Muse Glimmer integrates multi-step reasoning, reliable tool use and failure recovery into a single model that runs locally on consumer devices without requiring cloud infrastructure.
  • [2]Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic Model
    Hugging Face Daily Papers · Oct 17, 12:00 AM · same content

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