{"slug": "alexandr-wang-tells-meta-employees-watermelon-has-caught-gpt-5-5", "title": "Alexandr Wang tells Meta employees Watermelon has caught GPT-5.5", "summary": "Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang told employees in an internal town hall that the company's unreleased model, codenamed Watermelon, has matched OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks, giving CEO Mark Zuckerberg a talking point for Meta's $125 billion-plus AI infrastructure investment.", "body_md": "# Alexandr Wang tells Meta employees Watermelon has caught GPT-5.5\n\n**The benchmark claim gives Zuckerberg a talking point for Meta's $125 billion-plus AI infrastructure buildout, but Watermelon is still unreleased.**\n\nBy [Ryan Merket](/author/ryan-merket)\n· Published\n· Updated\n\n## Why it matters\n\nMeta 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.\n\nMeta AI chief [Alexandr Wang](https://x.com/alexandr_wang?ref=runtimewire) 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](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-model-catches-up-openai-gpt-5-says-2026-7?ref=runtimewire).\n\n## Reader comments\n\nConversation for this story loads after sign-in.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alexandr-wang-tells-meta-employees-watermelon-has-caught-gpt-5-5", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/alexandr-wang-meta-watermelon-openai-gpt-55", "published_at": "2026-07-03 02:16:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-03 21:17:49.723970+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-research", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Alexandr Wang", "Meta", "OpenAI", "GPT-5.5", "Watermelon", "Mark Zuckerberg"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alexandr-wang-tells-meta-employees-watermelon-has-caught-gpt-5-5", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alexandr-wang-tells-meta-employees-watermelon-has-caught-gpt-5-5.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alexandr-wang-tells-meta-employees-watermelon-has-caught-gpt-5-5.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alexandr-wang-tells-meta-employees-watermelon-has-caught-gpt-5-5.jsonld"}}