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Muse Glimmer 30B

Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, distilled from Muse Spark for always-on local agents, tool use, coding, and image understanding.

Technical Architecture & Execution Specifications
Architecture Overview

Muse Glimmer 30B

Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, distilled from Muse Spark for always-on local agents, tool use, coding, and image understanding.

Memory Math Breakdown
  • • FP16 Weights = 30.0B × 2B = 60.00 GB
  • • INT4 Weights = 30.0B × 0.55B = 16.50 GB
  • • KV Cache (131072 ctx, FP16) ≈ 25.00 GB
  • • Activation Buffer = ~20% overhead
Supported Modalities
textimage

Hardware & Execution ParametersCode

Total Parameter Count30B
Active Parameters (MoE)Dense Architecture
Context Window Capacity131,072 tokens
Model Weights Footprint60.0 GB (FP16) / 16.5 GB (INT4)
Distribution LicenseOpen Weights (Apache 2.0)
Standard API Pricing (1M Tokens)Free / Self-Hosted
Model Heritage & Evolutionary Lineage

Genealogical Graph & Evolutionary Provenance

Tracing foundational base architecture ancestry, architectural successors, scale siblings, and reasoning distillation derivatives.

Independent Foundation Checkpoint

Muse Glimmer 30B operates as an autonomous foundation model architecture without direct precursor derivatives in this catalog.

Root Architecture Node
AI Model Architecture & Intelligence

Architecture Engineering & Capability Deep-Dive

An objective architectural evaluation of Muse Glimmer 30B by Meta, analyzing underlying compute dynamics, memory constraints, and deployment economics.

Topology & Attention Mechanics

A robust autoregressive transformer utilizing standard attention patterns for predictable and coherent token generation.

Architecture Type:Advanced Transformer

Evaluation Profile & Reasoning

Exhibits frontier-tier behavior in reasoning and coding.

Domain Specialty:Code

LLM Hardware Sizing & Serving

For open deployments via vLLM/SGLang, quantization (INT4/AWQ) is heavily recommended to fit dense memory constraints, or multi-GPU pipeline parallelism for full FP16.

KV Cache Mgmt: PagedAttention / FlashAttention-3
Hosting Type:Open Weights (Apache 2.0)

Inference Economics & Workflows

Well-suited for enterprise pipelines where capability is balanced against per-million token costs.

Enterprise Fit:Production Ready
Production Trade-Offs & Capability Balance

Architectural Strengths vs. Considerations

An objective balance sheet analyzing the operational advantages and production constraints of deploying Muse Glimmer 30B.

Key Architectural Strengths

  • Massive 131,072-token context allows full-repository and book-length ingestion.
  • Demonstrated MCP Atlas evaluation score of 75.5% in verified benchmarks.

Operational Considerations

  • 128k+ token prefill stages become heavily compute-bound and balloon KV cache without PagedAttention chunking.
LLM Hardware Sizing & Runtime Compatibility

Inference Runtimes & Hardware Sizing

Deployment targets, inference engines, and memory requirements for Muse Glimmer 30B.

Recommended Hardware Profile:
1x RTX 3090 / 4090 (24GB) or Mac M-Series (32GB+)
High-End Consumer GPU (24 GB VRAM)
Est. 72.0 GB (FP16) / 19.8 GB (INT4)
Production Serving Recipes
vLLM Production
python3 -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --model Muse Glimmer 30B --tensor-parallel-size 1 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 --max-model-len 4096 --enable-chunked-prefill
Ollama / llama.cpp
ollama run muse glimmer 30b
SGLang Structured
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Muse Glimmer 30B --tp 1 --trust-remote-code
TGI Serving
text-generation-launcher --model-id Muse Glimmer 30B --num-shard 1 --max-batch-prefill-tokens 32000
Supported Inference Engines
vLLM

High-throughput PagedAttention server

Supported
Ollama

One-click CLI & local desktop serving

Supported
SGLang

Fast multi-turn structured decoding

Supported
TGI

Text Generation Inference

Supported
Llama.cpp

GGUF CPU/Apple Silicon execution

Supported
Precision & Quantization Formats
BF16 / FP16Full Precision

~72.0 GB VRAM required

FP8 (E4M3)Native FP8

~36.0 GB VRAM (Hopper speedup)

AWQ / GPTQ (4-bit)Activation-Aware

~19.8 GB VRAM

GGUF (Q4_K_M)Quantized Binary

CPU RAM / Apple Silicon optimized

LLM Benchmark Database & Performance Metrics

9 Tested

Standardized evaluation results across reasoning, agentic coding, computer use, and alignment.

Flagship Headline MetricsIndustry SOTA Standard
Coding & Software

SWE-Bench Pro

51.2%resolve rate
0%100%
Coding & Software

SWE-Bench Verified

76%resolve rate
0%100%
Reasoning & Science

GPQA Diamond

83.5%accuracy
0%100%
MCP Atlas
success rate
75.5%
DeepSearch QA
74.6%
SWE-Bench Pro
resolve rate
51.2%
SWE-Bench Verified
resolve rate
76%
Terminal-Bench
success rate
51.7%
OSWorld-Verified
success rate
65.9%
AIME 2026
accuracy
94.7%
GPQA Diamond
accuracy
83.5%
Commercial Rates & Inference Costs

API & Deployment Pricing

Open-weights model available for local and private cloud deployment. Compute costs depend on the target GPU hardware instance.

Deployment TierPricing Structure
Open Checkpoint Weights$0.00 (Free Download)
Inference Token Consumption$0.00 / Token
Inference Cost & ROI Engine
Market Cloud Rate
Prompt / Input Volume:50M Tokens / mo
1M500M1,000M
Generated / Output Volume:10M Tokens / mo
1M250M500M
Estimated Monthly Spend
$64.00/ mo
Input (50M @ $0.80/1M):$40.00
Output (10M @ $2.40/1M):$24.00
Cloud GPU Breakeven Ratio
RunPod RTX 4090 ($316/mo)0.20x spend
Lambda 1x H100 ($1,800/mo)0.04x spend
💡 Open-weights model. You can self-host for $0 token API charge or consume via managed serverless endpoints at the rates shown above.
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Integration & Deployment
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ.get("META_KEY", "EMPTY"),
    base_url="http://localhost:8000/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta-muse-glimmer-30b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum superposition in 2 sentences."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions about Muse Glimmer 30B

Essential facts, architectural specs, hardware constraints, and pricing answers for Muse Glimmer 30B.

To run Muse Glimmer 30B (30B) locally, you generally need Depends on quantization. We recommend using quantized GGUF/AWQ formats with Ollama or vLLM to optimize memory footprint.

Primary Sources & Access Repositories

All technical specifications, parameter distributions, context architectures, and benchmark evaluations for Muse Glimmer 30B are audited against primary source release documentation, research whitepapers, and verified vendor API endpoints.

api id:meta/muse-glimmer-30b
knowledge cutoff:2026-01-04