The Morning Download: Meta Shares Glimmer of Always-On AI Future

Good morning. The most interesting thing about Meta’s new Muse Glimmer model, from the enterprise point of view, is its focus on always-on AI agents. As the company emphasizes in its announcement, “Muse Glimmer is…optimized for always-on local agent workflows.”

That’s going to matter a lot in the next few years, with implications for the ways in which companies work, as I wrote in an April 2025 column called “AI Is Enabling an Always-On Economy. Companies Need to Pick Up the Pace.”

Unlike human workers, the AI agents operating in fields from healthcare to cybersecurity don’t care about work-life balance. They don’t get tired or hungry, call in sick or go on vacation. They don’t fall in and out of love, pick up groceries on the way home, read bedtime stories to their children or separate their recyclables.

“AI is reshaping the economy by providing automation that transcends traditional time and capacity constraints, enabling businesses to operate seamlessly around the clock,” Konstantine Buhler, a partner at Sequoia Capital, told me last year. He developed an investment thesis around the topic, and said at the time he expected the dynamic to play out in more and more areas of the economy over the next five to seven years.

Meta’s Muse Glimmer advances the foundations of that economy, with a focus on principles such as end-to-end agentic task competition and failure recovery.

That technology helps enable new business and operating models in which increasingly autonomous agents can operate 24-7. It has important implications in areas such as sales, where companies strive toward “zero latency” as they tend to customer needs, Stav Levi-Neumark, co-founder and CEO of Alta, told me last year. The company offers companies AI agents to help improve software experiences.

The ability to respond to customer inquiries around the clock with the same capability that’s available in the middle of the afternoon is increasingly important, she said. And it’s going to matter in many business settings, from manufacturing and logistics to sales and customer service and more. Going forward, the question will be less about what can be done on a 24-7 basis and more on what can’t be done that way.

Is your company becoming more always-on in nature? If so, how is that changing the way it works and goes to market? Let us know.

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