Meta is fully shifting towards closed-source models; the new model Avocado may be launched next spring.

Months after investing tens of billions of dollars to build the most expensive team in tech history, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is deeply involved in day-to-day R&D and pushing the company's strategy towards directly monetizable AI models. According to sources, a new model codenamed "Avocado" is expected to be released in the spring of 2026, and may be released in a closed-source format (meaning Meta will strictly control access and sell it to external parties). This move marks a significant departure from Meta's long-standing advocacy of open-source principles. Zuckerberg is dedicating considerable time to a core team called TBD Lab, which, in training Avocado, even integrated third-party models including Google's Gemma, OpenAIgpt-oss, and Alibaba's Qwen. Meanwhile, Meta is drastically adjusting resource allocation, cutting investment in the Metaverse and virtual reality, shifting funds towards hardware such as AI glasses, and planning to invest $600 billion in AI infrastructure in the US over the next three years. (Jinshi)