Brief
Meta's first open model from Superintelligence Labs lands on Ollama: Muse Glimmer, a 30B multimodal build for local coding agents
Muse Glimmer, described as the first open model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available through Ollama under Apache 2.0. The evidence is a release notice: it names the license, the 30B multimodal size class, local coding agents as the target, and new support for image input.
Muse Glimmer is a 30B multimodal model released under the Apache 2.0 license, according to the Ollama notice. It is positioned for local coding agents rather than general chat, and Ollama says it is accelerated by its MLX engine with new native DFlash and image input support.
For anyone running local coding agents, the practical shift is that this option is both multimodal and permissively licensed at a size class you can run yourself — two properties that don't always arrive together. The notice does not include benchmarks, memory requirements, quantisations, hardware guidance or comparative results against other local coding models, so capability claims beyond the license, size and modality are not supported by the material available here.
Our reading
This matters to readers who keep coding agents on their own hardware and care about license terms before adoption: Apache 2.0 at 30B with image input is a combination worth testing against whatever local agent stack they run now. It also signals that Meta's new superintelligence group is shipping openly rather than only through an API, which is a distribution choice with consequences for teams th…
What to do or watch
Pull Muse Glimmer through Ollama and run it against your own coding-agent tasks, checking image input and license terms in your own setup. What remains unresolved is whether it actually outperforms your current local coding model — the release notice offers no evaluation evidence for that.
Source details and supporting facts
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- Muse Glimmer from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available.
- Meta's Muse Glimmer is the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs.
- Muse Glimmer is a 30B multimodal model released under the Apache 2.0 license.
- Muse Glimmer is designed for local coding agents.
- Muse Glimmer is accelerated by Ollama's MLX engine with new native DFlash and image input support.
Sources
- Ollama blogText stored 17 September 2026
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- The check reads stored text only: no claim rests on a fresh look that did not happen.
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