Meta’s new lightweight AI model is coming for OpenAI and Anthropic’s budget tiers
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Meta’s AI lineup now has a model built for the less glamorous side of AI agents. Muse Ember, the newest release from Meta Superintelligence Labs, is the company’s smallest and cheapest Muse model so far. It’s designed to handle the repetitive tasks agents perform thousands of times a day, rather than impressive one-off reasoning demos. That focus is deliberate. Meta is positioning Ember for tool calls, coding subtasks, routing requests, extracting data and parsing long documents. In other words, it’s the background work that becomes expensive when running at scale. Pricing starts at 10 cents per million input tokens, which places Ember well below proprietary small models such as Anthropic’s Haiku and OpenAI’s Luna.
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