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Public story · 2026-03-12 · source-backed
Meta pushed its frontier model from March to May amid performance failures. Open-source abandoned for Avocado after Llama 4's disappointing reception. Internal tensions: Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang losing autonomy, pay disparities, compute bottlenecks. Meta reportedly considering licensing Google Gemini temporarily. NYT via Reuters
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More AI-generated code did not turn into proportionally more shipped product. That's the internal finding at the center of Reuters' August 26 special report, and it's the most useful number-free sentence I've read this month. Project OT, for Organization Transformation, was ha...
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Meta's flagship model "Avocado" delayed from March to May after testing showed it performs between Gemini 2.5 and 3.0 — behind OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta leadership reportedly discussed temporarily licensing Google's Gemini. Fortune ---
Reuters reports Meta is considering laying off up to 20% (~16,000 employees) to offset its $600B AI infrastructure pledge. Simultaneously, Meta's next-gen model "Avocado" is delayed to May after benchmark underperformance. Spending more, shipping less.
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Meta formally pivoted from open-weight Llama to fully proprietary Muse Spark, its first model from the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. No downloadable weights. No self-hosting. Cloud-only private API preview to select partners. More locked down than OpenAI or Anthrop...
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