Meta’s new chief ai officer alexandr wang is an advocate of closed models, according to the people. Mark zuckerberg created the lab to push meta into the next stage of advanced ai to speed up progress after previous llama models failed to meet his expectations. Meta’s push to develop its next frontier model, codenamed avocado, under new ai leadership is creating internal friction as it races rivals openai and google.
Meta pivots from its open llama models to a delayed new avocado ai system that may launch as a closed flagship in 2026 amid rising pressure. The project is built within the meta superintelligence labs with alexandr wang leading the unit Meta is building strong momentum in the ai race with a new model named avocado
