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Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AImodelanyone can download and run on their own hardware— a contrast toMuseSpark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongsidea letter from Mark Zuckerbergarguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s hosts point out, the vision comes withsome asterisks.
On this episode of TechCrunch’sEquitypodcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Rebecca Bellantake a lookat Glimmer,Zuckerberg’s 6,500-wordmanifesto, and more of the week’s headlines,from thetrue cost ofthe AI industry’s energy needstoa $250Macquisition gone very wrong.
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