Scoop: Meta says its next-gen AI model, Avocado, is its “most capable pre-trained base model to date,” according to an internal memo.
It finished pretraining the model, which outperformed top open-source base models.
In a separate memo from mid-December, Meta said it is seeing 10 times compute efficiency “wins” with Avocado on text-related tasks compared to Maverick and over 100 times efficiency gains over Behemoth, a version of Llama 4 that Meta delayed last year