Meta’s ‘Avocado’ AI Model Delayed as Internal Tensions Rise

Meta is scrambling to deliver its next frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, as internal friction mounts over the company’s shifting strategy from open-source Llama models to proprietary development. The social media giant’s $14.3 billion bet on new AI leadership is creating cultural clashes while competitors like OpenAI and Google pull ahead in the AI race.

Meta is facing its biggest AI reckoning yet: Avocado, won’t arrive until the first quarter of 2026. … The delay represents more than just technical challenges. According to sources familiar with the project, Avocado is wrestling with training-related performance testing as Meta tries to ensure the system will be competitive when it debuts.  — Read More

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Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), and founding contributions of three leading projects driving innovation in open source AI; Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md

The advent of agentic AI represents a new era of autonomous decision making and coordination across AI systems that will transform and revolutionize entire industries. The AAIF provides a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively, and in ways that advance the adoption of leading open source AI projects. — Read More

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