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Meta launches Muse Ember, igniting price war with Haiku 5.5

Meta has released its Muse Ember model, priced identically to Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per 1 million input tokens. This move signifies the beginning of a price war for smaller language models, with Muse Ember achieving similar analytical scores to Haiku while being approximately one-third the cost per task, according to Meta's data. AI

IMPACT Intensifies competition in the small LLM market, potentially driving down costs for developers and users.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with pricing and performance comparison. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Meta launches Muse Ember, igniting price war with Haiku 5.5

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · mohith808 ·

    on oct 8 i posted that haiku 5.5 dropped to $0.10 per 1M input yesterday meta shipped muse ember at the exact same price same artificial analysis score as haiku

    on oct 8 i posted that haiku 5.5 dropped to $0.10 per 1M input yesterday meta shipped muse ember at the exact same price same artificial analysis score as haiku (36), about a third of the cost per task, per meta's own chart the small model price war is here https:// research.meta…