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Zuckerberg's $14B AI Bet Falters.

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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


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