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Meta releases "Muse Ember," its smallest and most efficient AI model, at $0.10 per million input tokens, says it beats Haiku 5.5 on performance per dollar; also offered on Google Cloud

Meta released "Muse Ember," its smallest and most efficient AI model, in an official blog post dated Nov. 9. It is aimed at the tool calls, fine-grained coding tasks and long-document reading that AI agents repeat all day. It became available the same day in the coding tool "Muse Code" and the "Meta Model API," with API pricing of $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. The context window is 1 million tokens, and output can be up to 512,000 tokens (512K). Citing Artificial Analysis results, Meta said it delivers more performance per dollar than Anthropic's "Claude Haiku 5.5" and OpenAI's "GPT-6 Luna" at every reasoning setting. However, Haiku 5.5 scored higher on FrontierCode 2.0-AA, which grades real-world development work. CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X on Nov. 9 (Nov. 10 Japan time) that Muse Ember and other models will be offered on Google Cloud.

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Free model "Crouton Alpha" with undisclosed developer appears on OpenRouter; analysis links it to Meta's Muse family

OpenRouter, a U.S. AI model routing service, released "Crouton Alpha," a "stealth" model whose developer is not disclosed, for free on Nov. 3 (Nov. 4 Japan time). It reads 1 million tokens at a time and accepts text, images, audio and video. The company positioned it as an efficient reasoning model for tasks that agents repeat. An X account that tracks model appearances said details such as the list of countries where it is unavailable match Meta's Muse, but said this is not confirmed. Because the provider may store submitted content, care is needed in handling business data.