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# Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an "order of magnitude more compute than Avocado" (Business Insider)

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**Published:** July 3, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.techmeme.com/260702/p40#a260702p40  

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