Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in July that the company's new artificial intelligence model will achieve a technological breakthrough in the next year or so. However, three people familiar with the matter revealed that Zuckerberg, who has invested several billion dollars in the AI competition, is now basically unable to achieve this goal as scheduled. According to sources, the new-generation “cutting-edge” AI model developed by Meta took several months. In internal testing, its ability to infer, code, and generate text fell short of mainstream AI models from competitors such as Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. These individuals are not authorized to speak publicly about confidential information. Two of them said that this model, codenamed Avocado, works better than Meta's previous AI model, and is also better than the Gemini 2.5 model released by Google in March, but it still lags behind Gemini 3.0 launched by Google in November. People familiar with the matter said that due to this, Meta has postponed Avocado's release from this month to as early as May. They also added that the head of Meta's AI department has instead discussed a temporary license to use Gemini to support the company's AI products, but no final decision has been made yet.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in July that the company's new artificial intelligence model will achieve a technological breakthrough in the next year or so. However, three people familiar with the matter revealed that Zuckerberg, who has invested several billion dollars in the AI competition, is now basically unable to achieve this goal as scheduled. According to sources, the new-generation “cutting-edge” AI model developed by Meta took several months. In internal testing, its ability to infer, code, and generate text fell short of mainstream AI models from competitors such as Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. These individuals are not authorized to speak publicly about confidential information. Two of them said that this model, codenamed Avocado, works better than Meta's previous AI model, and is also better than the Gemini 2.5 model released by Google in March, but it still lags behind Gemini 3.0 launched by Google in November. People familiar with the matter said that due to this, Meta has postponed Avocado's release from this month to as early as May. They also added that the head of Meta's AI department has instead discussed a temporary license to use Gemini to support the company's AI products, but no final decision has been made yet.