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- NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B model with 3B active parameters for agentsNVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open mixture-of-experts model with 30B total and 3B active parameters, aimed at fast, repetitive agent steps like tool calls. CNBC reported NVIDIA says it can run on a single GPU in a laptop or desktop. It is available in Ollama.
- Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for local AI agents, under Apache 2.0Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model it says is built for local agent work and small enough to run on a Mac or PC with one consumer GPU. The weights are under the Apache 2.0 license. Ollama added it the same day.
- Weekly roundup: week of Aug 10, 20262 verified construction AI stories announced Aug 10 to Aug 16, 2026: Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model for local AI agents, under Apache 2.0; NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B model with 3B active parameters for agents.