Meta’s Muse Glimmer wants to bring AI agents to your laptop
THE SO WHAT
Open-weight Muse Glimmer running locally on Mac and PC pushes agentic AI out of the cloud and into the OS. If you’re building productivity tools, assume users will soon have offline, system-level agents competing with your in-app assistants for context and control.
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