TechCrunch reported that Meta Superintelligence Lab released Muse Ember on 9 November 2026, pricing the lightweight model for agent tasks at 10 cents per million input tokens. Ember accepts text, images and audio inputs.
Meta says Ember is intended for repeated work such as tool calls, coding subtasks and extracting information. It designed the model to work alongside the larger Muse Wonder: Wonder could set rules for an issue, while Ember applies them across many cases. This division puts the cheaper model on tasks that recur most often.
Handling customer-support cases could follow that pattern, with rules set for an issue and then applied across many similar cases. The price of each input would matter more as the number of cases grew.
Meta used an Artificial Analysis composite benchmark score to present Ember as cheaper and smarter than Anthropic’s Haiku and OpenAI’s Luna. TechCrunch described its price as competitive with open-source models DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash.
Ember follows Muse Spark, released in April, its open-source twin Glimmer in August, and Wonder in October. Meta released the consumer Muse Agent in September. AI Affairs reported the addition of custom app-like Spaces to the assistant; Spaces and video chat features were rolling out in November.
