Meta is developing a new artificial intelligence model named Watermelon, which is intended to be as powerful as Anthropic’s cutting-edge models. The project was delayed until at least October after Meta paused and later resumed the pretraining stage in July.
The article notes that Meta has not yet announced when Watermelon or another project called Hatch will be rolled out. It also references a previous model, Avocado (released as Muse Spark), questioning whether Watermelon might underperform similarly.