Meta’s Avocado AI Model Delayed & Now Might License Google’s Gemini

Key Highlights – Meta had positioned the first quarter of 2026 as its moment to reassert itself in the AI race. That moment has now been pushed back by at least two months, and the circumstances around the delay reveal that the company is under considerably more strain than its public communications have suggested. The New York Times, citing three people with knowledge of the matter, reported Thursday that Avocado, Meta’s next-generation text AI model developed inside the newly formed TBD Lab, will not launch until May at the earliest. A Meta spokesperson offered a measured response: the next model […]