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Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong
August 14, 2026
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By TechCrunch AI
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1 min read
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 […]
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