From Llamas to Avocados: Metas shifting AI strategy is causing internal confusion
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Meta is shifting its AI strategy away from its open Llama approach toward a more proprietary frontier model effort codenamed Avocado. The company has invested heavily in AI talent and infrastructure, including major hiring, leadership changes, and increased capital spending. Internal pressure has risen after Llama 4 underperformed and Meta reorganized its AI teams, cut jobs, and changed how software gets built. The article also shows Meta increasingly relying on third-party tools and cloud services while it races competitors like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.
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