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Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is reportedly pushing back the launch of its next major AI model after internal tests showed the system still lags some of the top models built by rivals.
According to a New York Times report, the model, internally known as Avocado, didn’t perform as well as competing systems from Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), OpenAI, and Anthropic in several key areas, including reasoning, coding, and writing.
People familiar with the testing said Avocado still represents progress for Meta and performs better than the company’s previous AI model. It also reportedly beat Google’s Gemini 2.5 model released earlier this year. But it still fell short of the more advanced Gemini 3.0 model that Google introduced last November.
