It’s all fingers on deck at Meta, as the corporate develops new AI fashions beneath its superintelligence lab led by Scale AI co-founder, Alexandr Wang. The corporate is now engaged on a picture and video mannequin codenamed “Mango” together with a brand new text-based mannequin internally often called “Avocado,” The Wall Road Journal reported.
The tech big plans to launch the brand new fashions within the first half of 2026, the publication stated, citing an inner Q&A at Meta on Thursday, the place Wang and chief product officer Chris Cox unveiled the brand new roadmap.
Wang had stated Meta goals to make the text-based mannequin higher at coding whereas additionally exploring new world fashions that perceive visible info and might motive, plan, and act while not having to be skilled on each risk.
Meta has extra not too long ago fallen behind its rivals, like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, within the AI race. The corporate’s AI division noticed important restructurings this 12 months, which included management adjustments and the poaching of researchers from different high corporations. Nonetheless, a number of of the researchers who joined Meta SuperIntelligence Labs (MSL) have already left the corporate.
Final month, the corporate’s chief AI scientist, Yann Lecun, additionally introduced that he’s leaving to create his personal startup.
Meta doesn’t have a profitable AI product as of but. As a substitute, Meta AI assistant’s numbers are buoyed by the corporate’s current social networks spanning billions of customers, for the reason that firm locations the assistant within the search bar of its apps.
This implies the primary tasks and fashions popping out of MSL may have lots using on them.
