Meta is fully shifting to closed-source models. The new model Avocado is expected to be released next spring.

BlockBeats News, December 10 — After investing hundreds of billions of dollars over several months to build the most expensive team in tech history, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is deeply involved in daily R&D and pushing the company’s strategy toward directly monetizable AI models. According to sources, a new model codenamed “Avocado” is expected to be released in Spring 2026 and may be launched in a closed-source manner (i.e., strictly controlled by Meta with external sales access). This marks a significant deviation from Meta’s long-standing advocacy for open-source approaches. Zuckerberg is dedicating substantial time to a core team called TBD Lab, which, during Avocado’s training, even integrated third-party models including Google Gemma, OpenAI gpt-oss, and Alibaba Qwen. Meanwhile, Meta is significantly adjusting resource allocation, reducing investments in the Metaverse and virtual reality, redirecting funds toward AI glasses and other hardware, and planning to invest $600 billion in AI infrastructure in the United States over the next three years. (Jin10)