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Meta released Glimmer this week<\/a>, an open-weight AI\u00a0model\u00a0anyone can download and run on their own hardware\u00a0\u2014 a contrast to\u00a0Muse\u00a0Spark, the company\u2019s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside\u00a0a letter from Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0arguing AI should be \u201cfor everyone\u201d rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity\u2019s hosts point out, the vision comes with\u00a0some asterisks<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s\u00a0Equity<\/a>\u00a0podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Rebecca Bellan\u00a0take a look\u00a0at Glimmer,\u00a0Zuckerberg\u2019s 6,500-word\u00a0manifesto, and more of the week\u2019s headlines,\u00a0from the\u00a0true cost of\u00a0the AI industry\u2019s energy needs\u00a0to\u00a0a $250M\u00a0acquisition gone very wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0YouTube<\/a>,\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all\u00a0the\u00a0casts. You\u00a0also can\u00a0follow Equity on\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n