Pushing back the launch from «early 2026» is due to performance issues, The New York Times reports — as the model «currently falls between Gemini 2.5 and Gemini 3.»
This falls far behind the Meta Superintelligence Lab’s ambitions of «pushing the frontier,» after working on the new model «for months,» Reuters reports.
— We’re excited for people to see what we’ve been cooking very soon, a Meta spokesperson told Reuters.
Apparently, Meta AI has considered «temporarily» licensing Google’s Gemini model to propel their AI products while they wait for their own models to catch up.
Read more: The New York Times (paywalled) and Reuters.