Right tool, clear rules. The big new models are for hard problems, the cheap ones are for the repeat work, and either way a small firm still needs the basics: no passwords baked into apps, a person checking anything that affects a customer's money or rights, and a clear answer on where your meeting audio goes. Meta Muse Ember (Meta; The Verge): low-cost model for agents; Meta's own benchmark claims.
What was reported
Meta announcement, 9 November 2026. Meta calls Muse Ember its smallest and most efficient model, aimed at tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction and long document parsing. Available now as muse-ember-1.0 on the Meta Model API and Muse Code at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens (prompts up to 200K tokens), with a 1M-token context window.
Meta claims it gives more intelligence per dollar than Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-6 Luna; these are Meta's own comparisons using Artificial Analysis results and Meta internal evaluations, not independent testing.
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