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. Meta launched Muse Glimmer on August 10, 2026, a 30-billion-parameter dense multimodal model built to run locally on consumer-grade GPUs. 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. Muse Glimmer is positioned as a distilled version of Meta’s larger, closed Muse Spark 1.2 model, trading some raw capability for the ability to run on a desktop machine. Muse Glimmer extends that commitment into multimodal territory, where models process not just text but images, audio, and potentially other data types.