Meta's Watermelon Matches GPT-5.5 Benchmarks (3 minute read)

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Meta's new AI model, named Watermelon, reportedly achieves benchmark performance comparable to GPT-5.5, signaling a significant advancement in language model capabilities.

Meta's superintelligence chief, Alexandr Wang, says that the company's upcoming model has caught up with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on closely followed AI benchmarks. Codenamed Watermelon, the model is still in training. The model reportedly uses an order of magnitude more compute than Muse Spark. Meta has not given a timeline for Watermelon.
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