The Drop Times: Open-Weight AI Is Reopening an Old Web Question

Last week’s AI releases put a familiar question back into view: who controls the technology that digital systems depend on? On 10 August 2026, Meta released Muse Glimmer , a 30-billion-parameter model optimised for local agent workflows, with its weights under the Apache 2.0 licence. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO, argued in an essay published the same day that superintelligence should be broadly distributed rather than concentrated in a small number of hands.