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Meta Memo: New Avocado Model ‘Most Capable’ to Date

Meta Platforms is sounding an increasingly bullish note about the first major AI model expected to emerge from its new AI group. The company recently told some staffers in the group, known as Meta Superintelligence Labs, that its next generation large language model, codenamed Avocado, is “now Meta’s most capable pre-trained base model to date,” according to an internal memo, which was viewed by The Information. In the memo, dated Jan. 20, the company said it had completed pretraining for...

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