Meta might charge for a future AI model

Meta’s next AI model could mark a change in its “open source” AI strategy that Mark Zuckerberg had called “the path forward.” Currently, the company is working on a new AI model, code-named Avocado, that it might charge for access to, Bloomberg reports.

Last year, Meta launched its open source (depending on who you ask, since the Open Source Initiative disagrees) Llama 4 AI model, but it had a disappointing release, with Meta caught gaming AI benchmarks and being forced to delay a planned “Behemoth” version. But Zuckerberg scrapped that “in pursuit of something new,” Bloomberg says.

Following the Llama 4 launch, Zuckerberg has made sweepi …

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