# Alexandr Wang tells Meta employees Watermelon has caught GPT-5.5 > Source: > Published: 2026-07-03 02:16:57+00:00 # Alexandr Wang tells Meta employees Watermelon has caught GPT-5.5 **The benchmark claim gives Zuckerberg a talking point for Meta's $125 billion-plus AI infrastructure buildout, but Watermelon is still unreleased.** By [Ryan Merket](/author/ryan-merket) · Published · Updated ## 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](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). ## Reader comments Conversation for this story loads after sign-in.