Meta Platforms AI Developments

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Chinese regulators deepen investigations into acquisition of Manus by Meta Platforms, raising the risk that it could unwind the sale

However, the investigations remain preliminary and the regulators may choose not to take any action.

Meta Platforms acquired Manus at the end of December for $2 billion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/china-deepens-review-of-meta-s-landmark-2-billion-manus-buyout

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Meta’s Avocado LLM has outperformed leading open-source base models even before post-training refinement, internal memo shows

  • Meta’s Avocado LLM has outperformed leading open-source base models even before post-training refinement, the Information reported citing an internal memo written by Meta Superintelligence Labs product manager Megan Fu.
  • The report follows comments from Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth and that of CEO Zuckerberg (Q4 2025 Meta Platforms Earnings (Notion)) who said the models are good.

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/metas-avocado-ai-model-shows-promising-early-results-93CH-4485910

Assessment
The fact that they haven’t started post-training refinement could signal that the models may not arrive in Q1 2026.

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