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It appears that meta has had another setback as their

latest frontier model gets delayed. The New York Times reports that META's new model,

codenamed avocado, has been delayed until at least May. We last heard about the model's progress

in January when CTO Andrew Bosworth told Reuters it had been delivered for internal testing.

He said at the time that the model was, quote, very good, but warned that there's still a lot of work to be done in the reinforcement learning process.

More recently, there's been reports that META has set up a new applied AI division that reports to Bosworth rather than AI CEO Alexander Wang.

Rumors followed that Zuckerberg was done with Wang, although those

rumors were strenuously denied. Now the reporting states that avocado performance has fallen short

of the latest models from rivals, and this month's planned rollout has been delayed. The report

mentioned a shortfall in reasoning, coding, and writing from internal benchmarks. In other words,

basically every major category for modern LLMs. Reportedly, the model outperformed Gemini 2.5, but wasn't a match for Gemini 3.

Now, part of the issue could be the long development cycle. Meta has been working on this

model for almost nine months, and the goalposts of model performance have shifted dramatically

during that time. Meta put an optimistic spin on the issue,

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