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)