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Meta develops 'Watermelon' to compete with GPT-5.5

Meta has started work on an internal AI project called 'Watermelon' designed to directly compete with OpenAI's expected GPT-5.5 model. The project indicates that Meta is stepping up efforts to keep pace with rival large language models.

WHY IT MATTERS

It shows that competition for the most advanced AI models is intensifying among the biggest tech companies, and that Meta will not cede ground to OpenAI when the next generation of LLMs launches.

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