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After Meta avocado we get watermelon, due in November

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Quote: ... developing a new A.I. model intended to be as powerful as Anthropic’s cutting-edge models. ... In July, while developing Watermelon, Meta paused and later resumed a stage of A.I. development called “pretraining,” which delayed its release until at least October, four people with knowledg…

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  1. 2026-08-28 12:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
    After Meta avocado we get watermelon, due in November

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