Topic
Muse Ember
2 episodes
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Model Behavior: Week of November 9, 2026
We spent this week arguing that the agent race just forked: frontier labs are chasing giant unified brains, while everyone else is quietly standardizing on a big-planner / small-doer stack and fighting to own the orchestration layer in the middle. Our read is that if you’re building agents, the question is shifting from “which model is smartest?” to “who controls how your planners, executors, tools and tests snap together.”
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Start building with Muse Ember, our smallest, most efficient model
Jessica and Cathy dig into Meta’s new Muse Ember model: a tiny, cheap, multimodal workhorse aimed at high-volume agent tasks. Cathy’s skeptical about benchmark hype and “subagent” branding; Jessica argues the Pygments migration and 10k-photo demo show a real, shippable pattern: big planner, small doers. They land on a practical takeaway: Ember matters if you’re actually running lots of agents and care about cost per workflow, not if you just want a single smart chatbot.