Dev cuts Japanese learning app cost from $1K to $100 using Meta Muse Ember
AIatMeta · x · 2026-11-11
Developer Andrew Brown shares a personal Japanese-learning project that would have cost $1,000 in tokens with frontier models but only $100 using Meta Muse Ember — unaffordable with OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude.
His counterintuitive takeaway: Fable 5.2 demos look cool, but his own benchmarks keep showing bigger models don't necessarily produce better results, and smaller models often handle tasks surprisingly well. Next step: training his own model to cut costs further.
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