Morning Edition · Wednesday, November 11, 2026Published at 1:08 AM EST · New York

Meta's Muse Ember Matches Claude Haiku 5.5 on Artificial Analysis at About One-Third the Cost per Task

Meta's smallest model costs about $0.14 per index task against $0.41 for Haiku, but trails Haiku by more than seven points on FrontierCode 2.0 and ranks thirteenth of 36 on the independent Vals Index.

Meta released Muse Ember, its smallest model, on November 9. The Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data describes it as built for looped agent tasks: tool calls, parsing long documents, routing and writing code fragments. The channel repor…