Meta's open-sourced Muse Glimmer 30B vs Muse Spark 1.2
Glimmer delivered 5 runnable games at roughly one-fifth Muse Spark's cost.
Very Interesting experiment by @aimlapi .
the setup: • Muse Glimmer 30B - via aimlapi[.]com. cost: $0.02 • Muse Spark 1.2 - via aimlapi[.]com. cost: $0.11
Glimmer still made mistakes, especially in the racing game, and Spark produced better-looking graphics.
Meta built Glimmer as a 29.6B dense model distilled from Muse Spark for local agentic and coding work.
Its model card lists 131K+ context and quantized versions under 20GB, sized for 24GB or 32GB consumer hardware.