Key Takeaways

• CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on to shake up Meta's AI leadership team, form a new lab and poach talent with sky-high offers.
• Meta CTO stated the technology was not yet finished.
• Zuckerberg was reportedly already “furious” that his rivals were enjoying more success.

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NewsTechnology NewsTech NewsMeta engineers seem to have corrected the problem what made CEO Mark Zuckerberg so angry that he spent nearly $15 billion to 'import' top execTrendingNYT Connections HintsWordleSridhar VembuQuote Of The Day By Tim CookDeepinder GoyalJeff BezosSatya NadellaPalantir Ceo Alex KarpBill GatesMark ZuckerbergNYT Connections HintsWordleSridhar VembuQuote Of The Day By Tim CookDeepinder GoyalJeff BezosSatya NadellaPalantir Ceo Alex KarpBill GatesMark ZuckerbergNYT Connections HintsWordleSridhar VembuQuote Of The Day By Tim CookDeepinder GoyalJeff BezosSatya NadellaPalantir Ceo Alex KarpBill GatesMark ZuckerbergMeta engineers seem to have corrected the problem what made CEO Mark Zuckerberg so angry that he spent nearly $15 billion to 'import' top execTOI Tech Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jan 22, 2026, 00:22 ISTCommentsShareAA+Text SizeSmallMediumLarge Mark Zuckerberg (File Image) Meta engineers have reportedly corrected the issue that reportedly plagued company's AI effort.

as per a report by news agency Reuters, quoting the company's chief technology officer (CTO) Andrew Bosworth, Meta Platforms' new artificial intelligence lab has now delivered its first high-profile AI models internally this month.

Meta faced criticism over the performance of its Llama 4 model at a time when rivals, such as Alphabet's Google and others, have seized momentum in the race for transformational and lucrative AI.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on to shake up Meta's AI leadership team, form a new lab and poach talent with sky-high offers.

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Meta CTO stated the technology was not yet finished.

Though once set to rival the other America-developed large language models (LLMs), Meta’s LlaMA hit the rocks in May, after its latest “lightweight” models received a disappointing reception.

Zuckerberg was reportedly already “furious” that his rivals were enjoying more success.

At a press briefing on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, CTO Bosworth stated that the models built by Meta Superintelligence Labs team, formed last year, showed a lot of promise."They're basically six months into the work, not quite even," Bosworth said, adding that the team's AI models were "very good".

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In early 2025, Meta's Generative AI unit launched Llama 4, a family of AI models that failed to match the capabilities of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s models and that was broadly seen as a disappointment.

Speaking in general terms about the development cycle, Bosworth said: "There's a tremendous amount of work to do post-training" for AI, "to actually deliver the model in a way that's usable internally and by consumers." He said, however, that Meta was starting to see favorable returns from its big gambits in 2025, which he called a "tremendously chaotic year" for Meta building its lab, infrastructure, and procuring power.Bosworth stated 2026 and 2027 would see consumer AI trends firm up because recent advances had delivered models that already answer "the kinds of things that you ask every day with your family, your kids," even as technological development could improve results for more complex queries.

Bosworth did not specify which models were delivered internally.

Key Development 4

Media reports in December stated that Meta is working on a new AI model, codenamed Avocado, that could be proprietary instead of open source.

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Meta spent nearly $15 billion in the data-labeling company Scale AI, taking a 49% stake in the startup, while also bringing on its 28-year-old CEO Alexandr Wang to help lead a new “superintelligence” lab within the company.

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Reports claim that the text AI model codenamed Avocado is slated for a first-quarter 2026 launch, along with an image and video-focused model codenamed Mango.

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