Meta delays rollout of new AI model 'Avocado' amid performance concerns, NYT reports

2026-03-13 00:53:48 ET

Meta’s ( META ) new foundational A.I. model, which the company has been working on for months, has fallen short of the performance of leading A.I. models from rivals like Google ( GOOG ) ( GOOGL ), OpenAI ( OPENAI ) and Anthropic ( ANTHRO ) on internal tests for reasoning, coding and writing, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing sources. ...

The model, code-named Avocado, outperformed Meta’s previous A.I. model and did better than Google’s Gemini 2.5 model from March, two of the people said. But it has not performed as strongly as Gemini 3.0 from November, they said.

As a result, Meta ( META ) has delayed Avocado’s release to at least May from this month, the people said. They added that the leaders of Meta’s A.I. division had instead discussed temporarily licensing Gemini to power the company’s A.I. products, though no decisions have been reached.

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, has spent billions hiring top A.I. researchers and committed $600 billion to building data centers to power the technology. In January, Meta projected that it would spend as much as $135 billion this year, nearly twice the $72 billion it spent last year.

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