Meta Platforms News - February 5, 2026
Big Tech Slashes Staff to Fund $10M AI Packages as CEO-Led Talent War Intensifies
Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon are competing for a limited pool of elite artificial intelligence researchers. Compensation packages for top...
Meta’s ‘Avocado’ AI Model Deemed ‘Most Capable’ Yet as Company Weighs Proprietary Shift
An internal memo from Meta’s Superintelligence Labs identifies "Avocado," a next-generation large language model, as the company’s most capable pre-trained...
Meta’s ‘Avocado’ AI Surpasses Llama as Internal Memo Signals Shift to Proprietary Model
An internal Meta memo dated January 20 identifies the next-generation AI model 'Avocado' as the company's most capable pre-trained base model to date. The...