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.
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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.
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- [1]Muse Glimmer 30B: An On-Device Agentic ModelarXiv (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 ModelHugging Face Daily Papers · Oct 17, 12:00 AM · same content
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