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Public story · 2026-03-14 · source-backed
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 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 consi...
Muse Image, from Alexandr Wang's lab, generates and edits from text, writes and runs code to produce accurate plots and QR codes, and searches the web to ground outputs. It launched free in Meta AI, WhatsApp, and Instagram Stories, and immediately drew pushback for training on...
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 ---
Designed with Broadcom, built by TSMC, going into manufacturing after a six-week test run found no major issues (Reuters). Iris supplements rather than replaces Meta's Nvidia/AMD GPUs and supports a buildout targeting 7GW by end-2026 and 14GW in 2027 against up to $145B in 202...
Shipped today, giving Meta AI calendar access, guided research, daily briefings and recurring task automation, with the model deciding when to write a script versus drive on-screen controls. The Poly-Guard number is the one builders should read: roughly 1 in 14 multi-turn atta...
$1.25 input / $4.25 output per million tokens for the standard tier. $0.10 / $0.20 for the Contributor tier, where Meta trains on your usage and feedback. That's roughly 12x on input, 21x on output, and it's the clearest number anyone has published on what your proprietary sou...
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