Meta’s Muse Ember matches Claude Haiku at a third of the cost per task
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Meta’s Muse Ember matching Claude Haiku at roughly one-third the cost for routing, tool calls, and parsing makes small-task inference a price war. If you’re building agents, revisit your model mix this quarter — the economics of background tasks just shifted toward cheaper, specialized SLMs.
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