Ex-Meta employee estimates Muse costs $150-$300 per user monthly
RihardJarc · x · 2026-11-06
An expert call from a former Meta employee, circulated via AlphaSense, reveals several internals of Meta's compute and AI business:
- CapEx conviction: Zuckerberg pushed to deploy capital ahead of clear use cases like Muse, ensuring no capacity shortage through 2026-2028, with this year's CapEx around $140-150B.
- Chip diversification: Meta is reducing NVIDIA reliance — its in-house MTIA ASIC is at single-digit share today, targeting double digits in coming years; it's also renting Google TPUs, partnering with AMD, and leasing from neoclouds.
- JV structures to preserve cash: After the Street reacted sharply to CapEx estimates, Meta worked with bankers on JV structures where land and buildout count as contributions in kind — Louisiana first, now repeating the playbook at El Paso with BlackRock.
- Muse cost per user: Based on Muse Spark's public pricing ($1/M input, $4/M output tokens), he estimates a free-tier user costs roughly $150-300/month (worst case 400-500M tokens monthly), or around $150 after baking in 30-40% gross margins.
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