Meta's Muse Ember and Musk's Terafab push AI cost and compute
Meta's Muse Ember is drawing attention for speed and low cost, while Musk's Terafab chip project and a $24B SpaceX data center signal more AI infrastructure.
What we know
Meta's Alexandr Wang highlights benchmark results showing Muse Ember as the cheapest model on the Vals Index at $0.15 per test, and says it matches Haiku 5.5 at roughly a third of the cost. Nikkei reports the Terafab chip fab is targeting 1 million wafers a month and ordering from Japanese equipment makers. Market news accounts also report SpaceX plans a $24B gas-powered data center at Starbase, which is unconfirmed.
How the story developed
Meta's Muse Ember is drawing attention for speed and low cost, while Musk's Terafab chip project and a $24B SpaceX data center signal more AI infrastructure.
Meta released Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient model, priced at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens. Meta's AI chief says it matches Claude Haiku 5.5 on an independent index at a third of the cost.
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