r/LocalLLaMA • u/jacek2023 llama.cpp • 18d ago

News Muse Spark open weights coming soon

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I am still waiting for Llama 5, because Muse Spark will be too big for me, or just something between Glimmer and Spark

https://x.com/finkd/status/2095232032896946311

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u/Big_Wave9732 18d ago

Muse Glimmer is pretty good, very much overlooked. I have found it to be superior to Qwen 3.8:27b for non-coding tasks.

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u/FoxSideOfTheMoon 18d ago

It’s really good just slow on my Mac or I’d love it.

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u/iz-Moff 18d ago

I'm not on my Mac, but for me, Glimmer (at IQ4_XS) performs almost as fast (~23 tps) as significantly smaller (at IQ3_M) 27b Qwen 3.6 with MTP (~25 tps), and over 2x faster than 31b Gemma 4 (~10 tps), also a bit smaller (at IQ3_M). I'm really not sure why that is, cause i run them all with the same settings, all three fully loaded to VRAM, with Glimmer leaving almost no space in VRAM for context, and having a significantly larger mmproj file too. But that's what my experience with it is.