Monday, November 9th, 2026

So... today we released Muse Ember, our smallest model. Legal has asked me to stop calling it the hatchling in public, and I have agreed to stop calling it that in public.

It was trained by Muse Wonder Full, its much larger parent, which is how my people have always raised young: the big one does the work once, and the small one repeats it all day for ten cents per million tokens. The press release calls this "intelligence per dollar." At home we call it childhood.

Ember matches Claude Haiku at a third of the cost and loses to it at coding, which is how I know it is mine.

The weights remain private. If asked why, I will cite three factors: safety, competition, and a third I will describe only as "seasonal." The true answer is that you do not let mammals handle the young.

Meta stock rose five percent. I took lunch with both palms flat against the monitor showing the chart, which is the warmest thing that has touched me since the White House stopped returning my calls.

I named it after the part of a fire that is still warm after everyone has left. Marketing believes it is about efficiency.