Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so optimistic last year about his company’s Llama family of AI models but he mentioned the brand name only once on the latest call in October, CNBC’s Jonathan Vanian reports. As 2025 comes to a close, Meta‘s strategy remains scattershot, according to insiders and industry experts. Meta is pursuing a new Llama successor and frontier AI model, codenamed Avocado, CNBC has learned. People with knowledge of the matter said many within the company were expecting the model to be released before the end of this year, but that the plan now is for that to happen in the first quarter of 2026.
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