Report: Meta’s next flagship ‘Avocado’ model may abandon open source to compete with GPT‑5 and Gemini 3
Summary
AI news site AIbase reports that Meta is developing a next-generation large model codenamed "Avocado" as a successor to Llama, targeting frontier-level performance comparable to GPT‑5 and Gemini 3 Ultra. According to the report, Meta is weighing a shift from open-source releases to a closed-source, API-only model with heavy investment in data centers and talent, signaling a strategic move to compete directly with proprietary ecosystems from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.
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