INSIDE META'S PIVOT FROM OPEN SOURCE TO MONEY-MAKING AI MODEL

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

Meta is developing a closed model codenamed Avocado, expected next spring, after years of loudly supporting open-source. The new model is trained on the outputs (or “distilled”) from rival models, including Google's Gemma, OpenAI's gpt-oss, and Alibaba's Qwen. New Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang is reportedly chafing under Zuckerberg's “micromanagement”. Long-time AI head Yann LeCun left last month after being sidelined under the new org structure.