Meta new open source model is coming?

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Key Points

  • The article (via an internal-model selector leak) suggests Meta is evaluating multiple “Avocado” model configurations that could be released as open source.
  • Reported candidates include Avocado 9B (a smaller 9B-parameter variant) and Avocado Mango, described as agent/sub-agent oriented and potentially multimodal with image generation capabilities.
  • It also mentions Avocado TOMM (“Tool of many models”) built on Avocado, along with an updated Avocado Thinking 5.6 and a text-only conversational model called Paricado.
  • The post points to testing results and an external source (TestingCatalog) as the basis for the claimed configurations under evaluation.
Meta new open source model is coming?

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An internal model selector reveals several Avocado configurations currently under evaluation. These include:

- Avocado 9B, a smaller 9 billion parameter version.

- Avocado Mango, which carries "agent" and "sub-agent" labels and appears to be a multimodal variant capable of image generation.

- Avocado TOMM - "Tool of many models" based on Avocado.

- Avocado Thinking 5.6 - latest version of Avocado Thinking model.

- Paricado - text-only conversational model.

Source: https://www.testingcatalog.com/exclusive-meta-tests-avocado-9b-avocado-mango-agent-and-more/

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