{"id":195571,"date":"2026-03-13T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/metas-avocado-delay-puts-135-billion-ai-bet-under-scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:30:11","slug":"metas-avocado-delay-puts-135-billion-ai-bet-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/metas-avocado-delay-puts-135-billion-ai-bet-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s Avocado Delay Puts $135 Billion AI Bet Under Scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/meta-avocado-delay-puts-135-billion-dollar-ai-bet-under-scrutiny\/\">Meta\u2019s Avocado Delay Puts $135 Billion AI Bet Under Scrutiny<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/meta-avocado-delay-puts-135-billion-dollar-ai-bet-under-scrutiny\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/meta-avocado-delay-puts-135-billion-dollar-ai-bet-under-scrutiny\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-13 12:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly! Here is a polite and respectful summary of the article on Meta&#8217;s delay of its next-generation AI model, Avocado, using an unordered list format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Postponed Launch<\/strong>: Meta has delayed the launch of its next-generation AI model, Avocado, to at least May, moving away from the initial plan for a debut this month.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Performance Concerns<\/strong>: Internal tests revealed that Avocado trails leading systems from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic in key areas, including logical reasoning, programming, and writing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategic Shift<\/strong>: The company is contemplating whether to temporarily license Google\u2019s Gemini technology to power certain Meta products while Avocado reaches competitive performance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI Roadmap and Developments<\/strong>: Meta has broader AI plans in motion, including the advancement of a next-generation model codenamed Watermelon and an image and video generation system called Mango.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Financial Strategy<\/strong>: Meta&#8217;s significant capital investment in AI infrastructure ($115 billion to $135 billion for 2026) raises questions about its AI monetization strategy, which lacks a direct compute revenue stream like cloud services.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internal Expectations<\/strong>: Avocado was envisioned as a leap forward in Meta&#8217;s AI capabilities, potentially outperforming rivals once it received additional improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These points summarize the key elements of the original article while adhering to the Media Outlets Policy.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s Avocado Delay Puts $135 Billion AI Bet Under Scrutiny https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/meta-avocado-delay-puts-135-billion-dollar-ai-bet-under-scrutiny\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-13 12:13:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Meta-AI.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195573,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195571\/revisions\/195573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}