# Meta releases Muse Ember for high-volume AI agent tasks

_Published Monday, November 9, 2026 at 1:42 PM EST · AI, Products · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Meta released Muse Ember on Monday, pricing input at 10 cents per million tokens and targeting repeated agent tasks such as tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction and long-document parsing. TechCrunch reported that Meta positions the model as a lower-cost companion to its larger Muse Wonder model.

The intended division of work lets a larger model establish instructions while Ember applies them across many cases. Meta says Ember handles text, images and audio, including screenshots, scanned documents and recordings. The company also claims favorable intelligence per dollar against competing models using an Artificial Analysis composite benchmark; that comparison is Meta's positioning rather than a finding established by this reporting.

## Sources

- [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/meta-releases-muse-ember-a-new-lightweight-model-for-agent-execution/)

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