The benchmark claim gives Zuckerberg a talking point for Meta's $125 billion-plus AI infrastructure buildout, but Watermelon is still unreleased.
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Why it matters #
Meta has spent aggressively to buy talent and compute. Watermelon is the first visible test of whether Alexandr Wang can turn that spending into frontier-model credibility.
Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang told employees in an internal town hall this week that the company's next major model, codenamed Watermelon, has caught up with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on closely watched benchmarks, Business Insider reports.
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