{"id":285388,"date":"2026-07-03T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/meta-ai-chief-says-watermelon-model-has-caught-up-to-gpt-5-5\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:40:20","slug":"meta-ai-chief-says-watermelon-model-has-caught-up-to-gpt-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/meta-ai-chief-says-watermelon-model-has-caught-up-to-gpt-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta AI chief says \u2018Watermelon\u2019 model has caught up to GPT-5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta AI chief says \u2018Watermelon\u2019 model has caught up to GPT-5.5<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/americanbazaaronline.com\/2026\/07\/03\/meta-ai-chief-says-watermelon-model-has-caught-up-to-gpt-5-5-484022\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-03 12:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: americanbazaaronline.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Meta\u2019s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, said the company has made significant progress in the race to build advanced artificial intelligence models. According to a Business Insider report, Wang told employees during an internal town hall that Meta\u2019s upcoming AI model, codenamed \u201cWatermelon,\u201d has caught up with OpenAI\u2019s flagship GPT-5.5 model.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatermelon, our next model after Avocado, is currently in training,\u201d Wang said in the town hall, according to a person familiar with the matter. \u201cWatermelon uses an order of magnitude more compute than Avocado,\u201d he added, referring to Meta\u2019s internal codename for Muse Spark, the first in a family of models that the company released in April.<\/p>\n

READ: Meta launches Pocket, an AI app for creating games with text prompts<\/strong> (July 3, 2026)<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Wang also said in a post on X that an update to Meta\u2019s current AI model Muse Spark will be released soon, bringing significant improvements in coding and agentic capabilities to help close the gap with rival models. Responding to a question about when Meta would have a coding model comparable to Anthropic\u2019s Claude Opus, Wang said the upcoming Muse Spark update is designed to narrow that gap.<\/p>\n

While Meta had invested massively in chips, data centers and talent, the company is yet to close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic. If Wang\u2019s assessment is correct, it might mark the clearest sign yet that Meta\u2019s investment is paying off.<\/p>\n

According to Reuters, CEO Mark Zuckerberg struck a more cautious tone during the town hall. Reuters reported that Wang oversees Meta\u2019s elite AI research team, known as TBD, as well as other artificial intelligence initiatives, including the company\u2019s recent hardware push.<\/p>\n

READ: Meta fails to dismiss lawsuit accusing Facebook and Instagram of addicting children<\/strong>\u00a0(July 1, 2026)<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg also addressed Meta\u2019s recent layoffs in an interview with Reuters, saying they were not as \u201cclean\u201d as they should have been. He…<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meta AI chief says \u2018Watermelon\u2019 model has caught up to GPT-5.5 https:\/\/americanbazaaronline.com\/2026\/07\/03\/meta-ai-chief-says-watermelon-model-has-caught-up-to-gpt-5-5-484022\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-03…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/americanbazaaronline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Meta.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-285388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285390,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285388\/revisions\/285390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}