What happened
● Three Meta models on Google Cloud — Muse Ember, Muse Spark 1.3 and Muse Wonder, in Vertex AI Model Garden.
● Announced by Zuckerberg on 9 November — Pichai replied publicly welcoming them.
● Managed APIs — Customers call them without running the infrastructure themselves.
● No pricing published — Neither company has stated what the models cost on Google Cloud.
Mark Zuckerberg announced on 9 November that three Meta Muse models are available on Google Cloud. Sundar Pichai replied: “Congrats and welcome to the model garden, excited to serve our Google Cloud customers!” Two companies that compete on almost everything, trading compliments about distribution.
The three models
| Model |
What Meta positions it for |
| Muse Wonder |
Complex software engineering and longer multi-step tasks |
| Muse Spark 1.3 |
Coding and agent workflows that call tools |
| Muse Ember |
High-volume repeated work — tool calls, routing, smaller coding tasks |
Available through Google Cloud’s Model Garden as managed APIs, so customers do not run the underlying infrastructure. No pricing has been published by either company.
Why a competitor hosts a competitor
Google sells compute. Meta wants its models used. Those two interests line up even when nothing else does — Model Garden already carries Anthropic and Mistral models alongside Google’s own, and every one of them makes Google Cloud a more complete place to build.
For a buyer the practical effect is simpler: one billing relationship, one set of credentials, and the ability to switch model families without switching vendors. That is worth more to most engineering teams than any single benchmark.
Muse Ember is the one to watch commercially. Meta priced it at $0.10 per million tokens at launch, matching Claude Haiku and GPT Luna, and it is positioned for exactly the high-volume routing work that generates the largest bills. Putting a cheap high-volume model inside Google’s billing is a distribution play, not a benchmark one.
Frequently asked questions
Which Meta models are on Google Cloud?
Muse Ember, Muse Spark 1.3 and Muse Wonder, available through Vertex AI Model Garden as managed APIs.
When was this announced?
Mark Zuckerberg announced it on X on 9 November 2026. Sundar Pichai replied welcoming the models to Model Garden.
What do they cost on Google Cloud?
Neither company has published pricing for the models on Google Cloud. Meta listed Muse Ember at $0.10 per million tokens at its own launch.
Do I need to manage the infrastructure?
No. They are offered as managed APIs, so you call them the same way you would call a Google model, without provisioning anything.