They claim to have optimized it for exactly the kind of things I'm looking for in a local model:
- End-to-end Agentic Task Completion. Muse Glimmer achieves strong success rates on full-task benchmarks including DeepSearch QA, MCP-Atlas, 𝛕-Bench and SWE-Bench, which measure its ability to work within scaffolds, write and debug code, and resolve multi-turn requests from start to finish.
- Reliable Tool Use. The model handles a wide range of function calls, invoking tools with precise schemas throughout extended workflows.
- Multi-Step Reasoning. Muse Glimmer chains reasoning over long horizons, sustaining coherent plans across complex, extended workflows. [...]
Here's a pelican which I generated using LM Studio's 18.16 GB version of the model:

I also tried it out with my llm-coding-agent plugin, running against a fresh checkout of Datasette with the prompt:
how does auth work?
Here's the response, at the end of a long transcript showing all of the tool calls it made to explore the codebase.
I really like this size of model, because if a machine has 32 GB of RAM or more (mine has 128GB) it leaves plenty of space for running other applications at the same time.
Via Hacker News
Tags: ai, generative-ai, llama, local-llms, llms, meta, llm-release